Validity And Reliability Of Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionaire (ctsq) Among Cancer Out Patients In Tikur Anebssa Specialized Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia

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Background- Cancer is becoming the most challenging issue in adult and geriatrics and intervention onrnpatient therapy satisfaction is not commonly seen. The burden of cancer in morbidity and mortality isrnincreasing through time .Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionnaire is the most widely used tool used tornassess the satisfaction of cancer therapy in cancer patient. It is used to classify satisfaction for cancerrnpatient as well satisfied or no satisfied. To improve quality of life different type cancer therapy has beenrngiven for the patients this can be measured through cancer therapy tools and tools in our context notrnvalidated so far.rnObjective- To test the reliability and validity of Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionnaire and tornassess its relation with quality of life (QOL), among cancer patient in Tikur Anbessa SpecializedrnHospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.rnMethod- Facility based cross sectional study was conducted from August to September 2019 amongrncancer patients in Black lion Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa Ethiopia. A total of 288 cancer patientsrnwere selected using a Stratified random sampling technique. Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionnairernand one other (health-related) QOL questionnaire was administered among 288 randomly selectedrncancer patients. CTSQ has 3 domains and each domain has different number of Items. The reliabilityrnand validity of each Items of CTSQ were evaluated against the full Item of CTSQ. Accuracy, sensitivity,rnspecificity and cut off point were evaluated to determine validity of CTSQ. The reliability also assessedrnusing cronbaches αcoefficient. Criterion-related validity of the CTSQ was evaluated computing therncorrelation between total CTSQ score and total score of QOL-BREF.rnResult: The mean age (±SD) of the participants was 45.7±7.3 years. About 225(78%) females andrn63(21%) males participated in the study. Cronbaches α value of full CTSQ tool was found 0.95.Thernoverall accuracy of CTSQ was 0.89(95 % CI, 0.82%-0.96%), p< 0.001). The sensitivity and specificityrnof CTSQ using established cut of point was 92.3% and 83.6% respectively. The overall cancer therapyrnsatisfaction was found to be 80.6%.rnConclusion: CTSQ was valid and reliable to identify cancer therapy satisfaction among cancer patientrnand also CTSQ was positively correlate with QOL-BREF .CTSQ can be applied to measure cancerrntherapy in the Ethiopian contex

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Validity And Reliability Of Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionaire (ctsq) Among Cancer Out Patients In Tikur Anebssa Specialized Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia

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