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Reply to Emotional Well-Being Does Not Predict Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients : A Radiation Therapy Oncology Group study

✍ Scribed by James C. Coyne; Thomas F. Pajak; Deborah Watkins Bruner

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 39 KB
Volume: 112
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23436

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✦ Synopsis

A Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Study I n their recent article, Coyne et al. 1 vastly overstated the quality of their study and the meaning of their findings.

Poor Measurement

They used only 4 items from an Emotional Well-Being subscale, which hardly constitutes a reliable assessment of depression or anything else, and produces little variance. Coyne et al stated that the subscale contains 5 items, 1 but it actually contains 6. 2 Furthermore, the questions utilized do not assess how the person handles their distress (eg, by avoidance, suppression of emotion, substance abuse, etc.). 3 Moreover, although the patients in the study had squamous cell carcinomas, the validation was performed on a sample of 240 breast cancer patients. Reliability and validity are population specific.

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