The Distress Thermometer and its validity: a first psychometric study in Indonesian women with breast cancer

This study aims to translate the Distress Thermometer (DT) into Indonesian, test its validity in Indonesian women with breast cancer and determine norm scores of the Indonesian DT for clinically relevant distress. First, the original version of the DT was translated using a forward and backward tran...

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Published in:PloS one 2013-02, Vol.8 (2), p.e56353-e56353
Main Authors: Iskandarsyah, Aulia, de Klerk, Cora, Suardi, Dradjat R, Soemitro, Monty P, Sadarjoen, Sawitri S, Passchier, Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis
Anxiety
Anxiety - diagnosis
Anxiety - psychology
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - psychology
Cancer
Cancer research
Cancer screening
Care and treatment
Clinical psychology
Demographics
Depression - diagnosis
Depression - psychology
Disease
Emotions
Female
Hospitals
Humans
Indonesia
Measuring instruments
Medical care quality
Medicine
Mental depression
Middle Aged
Oncology
Patients
Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychotherapy
Quality of life
Quality of Life - psychology
Quantitative psychology
Reproducibility of Results
ROC Curve
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Stress, Psychological - diagnosis
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Studies
Surgery
Surgical instruments
Surveys and Questionnaires
Translating
Validity
Womens health
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Summary:This study aims to translate the Distress Thermometer (DT) into Indonesian, test its validity in Indonesian women with breast cancer and determine norm scores of the Indonesian DT for clinically relevant distress. First, the original version of the DT was translated using a forward and backward translation procedure according to the guidelines. Next, a group of 120 breast cancer patients who were treated at the Outpatient Surgical Oncology Clinic in Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Indonesia completed a standard socio-demographic form, the DT and the Problem List, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the WHO Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses identified an area under the curve = 0.81 when compared to the HADS cutoff score of 15. A cutoff score of 5 on the DT had the best sensitivity (0.81) and specificity (0.64). Patients who scored above this cutoff reported more problems in the practical, family, emotional, spiritual/religious and physical domains (30 out of 36 problems, p-value
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0056353