1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/0959-8049(94)90182-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1016/0959-8049(94)90182-1</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale: an instrument for the evaluation of symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available European Journal Of Cancer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1994 Subject The topic of the resource Female; Humans; Male; Pain Measurement; Adult; Prevalence; Aged; Middle Aged; Reproducibility of Results; Analysis of Variance; Karnofsky Performance Status; 80 and over; Psychological; Stress; Neoplasms/complications; quality of life; Severity of Illness Index Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Portenoy RK; Thaler HT; Kornblith AB; Lepore JM; Friedlander-Klar H; Kiyasu E; Sobel K; Coyle N; Kemeny N; Norton L; et al Description An account of the resource The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) is a new patient-rated instrument that was developed to provide multidimensional information about a diverse group of common symptoms. This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the MSAS in the cancer population. Randomly selected inpatients and outpatients (n = 246) with prostate, colon, breast or ovarian cancer were assessed using the MSAS and a battery of measures that independently evaluate phenomena related to quality of life. Symptom prevalence in the 218 evaluable patients ranged from 73.9% for lack of energy to 10.6% for difficulty swallowing. Based on a content analysis, three symptoms were deleted and two were added; the revised scale evaluates 32 physical and psychological symptoms. A factor analysis of variance yielded two factors that distinguished three major symptom groups and several subgroups. The major groups comprised psychological symptoms (PSYCH), high prevalence physical symptoms (PHYS H), and low prevalence physical symptoms (PHYS L). Internal consistency was high in the PHYS H and PSYCH groups (Cronback alpha coefficients of 0.88 and 0.83, respectively), and moderate in the PHYS L group (alpha = 0.58). Although the severity, frequency and distress dimensions were highly intercorrelated, canonical correlations and other analyses demonstrated that multidimensional assessment (frequency and distress) augments information about the impact of symptoms. High correlations with clinical status and quality of life measures support the validity of the MSAS and indicate the utility of several subscale scores, including PSYCH, PHYS, and a brief Global Distress Index. The MSAS is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress. It provides a method for comprehensive symptom assessment that may be useful when information about symptoms is desirable, such as clinical trials that incorporate quality of life measures or studies of symptom epidemiology. 1994 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/0959-8049(94)90182-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1016/0959-8049(94)90182-1</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 1994 80 And Over Adult Aged Analysis of Variance Backlog Coyle N et al European Journal Of Cancer Female Friedlander-Klar H Humans Journal Article Karnofsky Performance Status Kemeny N Kiyasu E Kornblith AB Lepore JM Male Middle Aged Neoplasms/complications Norton L Pain Measurement Portenoy RK Prevalence Psychological Quality Of Life Reproducibility of Results Severity Of Illness Index Sobel K Stress Thaler HT