Eliza M Park1, Xianming Tan2, Elise M Stephenson3, Allison M Deal2, Justin M Yopp4, Donald L Rosenstein5, Teresa Edwards6, Mi-Kyung Song7. 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: leeza_park@med.unc.edu. 2. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 3. School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 4. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 5. Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 6. H. W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 7. Center for Nursing Excellence in Palliative Care, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Abstract
CONTEXT: Parenting concerns are a major source of distress for patients with advanced cancer. However, validated tools to measure this construct in advanced cancer patients are lacking. OBJECTIVES: The Parenting Concerns Questionnaire (PCQ) is the only tool available to assess parenting concerns in cancer patients, yet its psychometric properties have not been fully evaluated. METHODS: This cross-sectional Web-based survey of the psychosocial concerns included 211 women with Stage IV solid tumor malignancy who had at least one minor child in the home. Participants completed a battery of questionnaires assessing parenting concerns, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), depression and anxiety symptoms, and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Internal consistency was assessed by computing Cronbach's alpha. Convergent validity was evaluated using correlations of the PCQ with anxiety and depression symptom severity and HRQOL. We examined the PCQ's underlying dimensions with confirmatory factor analysis. RESULTS: The mean total PCQ score for the sample was 2.2 (SD, 0.7), corresponding to "a little bit concerned." Internal consistency was 0.82. The PCQ demonstrated adequate convergent validity with expected correlations with anxiety (r = 0.49) and depression (r = 0.56) symptom severity, and HRQOL (r = -0.61). The original three-factor structure was not fully supported by confirmatory factor analysis. CONCLUSION: The PCQ assesses a unique aspect of psychological distress in cancer patients. It demonstrated adequate reliability and convergent validity, but its original three-factor structure was not supported in a population of patients with metastatic cancer. The PCQ would benefit from further testing and refinement to enhance its representation of parenting concerns in metastatic cancer.
CONTEXT: Parenting concerns are a major source of distress for patients with advanced cancer. However, validated tools to measure this construct in advanced cancerpatients are lacking. OBJECTIVES: The Parenting Concerns Questionnaire (PCQ) is the only tool available to assess parenting concerns in cancerpatients, yet its psychometric properties have not been fully evaluated. METHODS: This cross-sectional Web-based survey of the psychosocial concerns included 211 women with Stage IV solid tumor malignancy who had at least one minor child in the home. Participants completed a battery of questionnaires assessing parenting concerns, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), depression and anxiety symptoms, and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Internal consistency was assessed by computing Cronbach's alpha. Convergent validity was evaluated using correlations of the PCQ with anxiety and depression symptom severity and HRQOL. We examined the PCQ's underlying dimensions with confirmatory factor analysis. RESULTS: The mean total PCQ score for the sample was 2.2 (SD, 0.7), corresponding to "a little bit concerned." Internal consistency was 0.82. The PCQ demonstrated adequate convergent validity with expected correlations with anxiety (r = 0.49) and depression (r = 0.56) symptom severity, and HRQOL (r = -0.61). The original three-factor structure was not fully supported by confirmatory factor analysis. CONCLUSION: The PCQ assesses a unique aspect of psychological distress in cancerpatients. It demonstrated adequate reliability and convergent validity, but its original three-factor structure was not supported in a population of patients with metastatic cancer. The PCQ would benefit from further testing and refinement to enhance its representation of parenting concerns in metastatic cancer.
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