Clinical Trial: Family Quality of Life Among Families With a Member Who is a Cancer Patient

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Assessment of Family Quality of Life Among Families With a Member Who is a Cancer Patient

Brief Summary:

RATIONALE: Developing a questionnaire that can be used to assess the quality of life among people who have a family member with cancer may help the study of cancer in the future.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying quality of life among families with a member who is a cancer patient.


Detailed Summary:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Develop and conduct preliminary validation of a Family Quality of Life Questionnaire for use with families with an adult cancer patient, with the measure appropriate for use for both research and clinical assessment purposes.
  • Generate an initial item pool for the measure (step 1).
  • Reduce the item pool based on a content validity assessment (step 2).
  • Assess the psychometric properties and dimensionality of the measure (step 3).

OUTLINE:

  • Step 1 (item generation): Items are generated through a literature review and a semi-structured interview with patients and their families. The purposes of the interview are to determine whether the five domains identified in the literature review (family interaction, family roles, family communication, family emotional support, overall family quality of life [FQOL]) are central areas of FQOL, and to determine if there are other important FQOL domains affected by cancer and its treatment. Patients and their family members are interviewed individually over 45-60 minutes. The initial item pool is generated based on the literature review and interviews.
  • Step 2 (item review and reduction): The initial item pool is examined and reduced based on its content validity. Ten health care providers with a minimum of five years experience working with cancer patients rate the content validity of the proposed questionnaire. Experts receive a packet of questionnaires, including the objective of the study, the proposed questionnaire as developed in step 1, and the proposed questionnaire with its format modified for the examination of conte
    Sponsor: Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

    Current Primary Outcome:

    • Preliminary validation of a family quality of life questionnaire [ Time Frame: Off study date ]
    • Generation of an initial item pool (step 1) [ Time Frame: Off study date ]
    • Reduction of the item pool based on content validity assessment (step 2) [ Time Frame: Off study date ]
    • Psychometric properties and dimensionality of the measure (step 3) [ Time Frame: Off study date ]


    Original Primary Outcome:

    • Preliminary validation of a family quality of life questionnaire
    • Generation of an initial item pool (step 1)
    • Reduction of the item pool based on content validity assessment (step 2)
    • Psychometric properties and dimensionality of the measure (step 3)


    Current Secondary Outcome:

    Original Secondary Outcome:

    Information By: Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

    Dates:
    Date Received: October 13, 2007
    Date Started: August 2007
    Date Completion:
    Last Updated: September 7, 2012
    Last Verified: September 2012