Cancer Appetite and Symptom Questionnaire (CASQ) for Brazilian Patients: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation Study.

Maria Claudia Bernardes SpexotoSergio Vicente SerranoVanessa HallidayJoão MarocoJuliana Alvares Duarte Bonini Campos

Published in: PloS one (2016)

The Portuguese version of the CASQ had good face and construct validity and reliability. However, the CASQ still presented invariance in independent samples of Brazilian patients with cancer. However, the tool has low convergent validity and weak invariance in samples with different treatments.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
psychometric properties
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
papillary thyroid
peritoneal dialysis
weight loss
squamous cell carcinoma
squamous cell