TABLE 1.
Questionnaire-based assessments administered via REDCap: Key constructs, internal consistency, and administration time point.
| Questionnaire administered via REDCap | # Items | Alpha | Time |
| Demographic characteristics | 8 | – | T1 |
| Utilization of psychological services | 6 | – | T1–T4 |
| Charlson Comorbidity Index (Charlson et al., 1987), 13 comorbid conditions | 13 | – | T1 |
| Emotional Expressivity Scale (Kring et al., 1994), dispositional emotional expressivity | 17 | 0.90–0.93 | T1 |
| Communication | |||
| Protective Buffering (Suls et al., 1997), enacted and received buffering | 14 | 0.80–0.87 (Langer et al., 2009) | T1–T4 |
| Emotional Disclosure Scale (Pistrang and Barker, 1992), disclosure and holding back re 10 cancer-related concerns | 20 | 0.85–0.91 (Porter et al., 2005) | T1–T4 |
| *Social Constraints Scale (Lepore and Ituarte, 1999), perceived constraints | 15 | 0.88–0.92 | T1–T4 |
| Communication Patterns Questionnaire (Christensen, 1987), demand-withdraw and constructive communication | 35 | 0.81–0.84 (Heavey et al., 1996) |
T1–T4 |
| Cognitive processing | |||
| *Impact of Events Scale (Horowitz et al., 1979), intrusion and avoidance | 15 | 0.82–0.86 (Sundin and Horowitz, 2002) | T1–T4 |
| Intimacy | |||
| Miller Social Intimacy Scale (Miller and Lefcourt, 1982), intimacy | 17 | 0.86–0.91 | T1–T4 |
| Psychological and relationship adjustment | |||
| *Profile of Mood States, 2nd edition (POMS-2; Heuchert and McNair, 2012), total mood disturbance | 35 | 0.76–0.95 | T1–T4 |
| *Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976), relationship adjustment | 32 | 0.96 | T1–T4 |
| Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression-10 (Andresen et al., 1994), depressive symptomatology | 10 | 0.86–0.91 (Miller et al., 2008) | T1–T4 |
| Well-being | |||
| *Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy, general population (Cella et al., 1993), physical, social, emotional, and functional well-being | 21 | 0.69–0.82 | T4 |
| Supplemental measures | |||
| Stanford Brief Activity Survey (Taylor-Piliae et al., 2006), usual physical activity | 2 | T1 | |
| Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy—COST (de Souza et al., 2014), financial distress | 11 | 0.90 | T1–T4 |
| Parenting Concerns Questionnaire (Muriel et al., 2012), parenting concerns | 10 | 0.79 | T1–T4 |
| Revised Adult Attachment Scale (Collins and Read, 1990; Collins, 1996), anxious and avoidant attachment | 18 | 0.78–0.85 | T1–T4 |
| Coronavirus Impact Scale (Hamilton et al., 2011), COVID impacts | 12 | Unknown | T1–T4 |
T1 = baseline; T2–T4 = 4, 8, and 12 months post-baseline, respectively. References for alpha values in column 3 are from the developer (cited in column 1) unless otherwise specified. *Commonly used in studies examining psychosocial functioning in the context of cancer.