TITLE:
Patient Satisfaction with and Acceptance of Their Totally-Implanted Central Venous Catheter: Construction and First Validation of a Questionnaire
AUTHORS:
Pierre Yves Marcy, Véronique Mari, Andréa Figl, Isabelle Ben-Taarit, Yves Fouché, Frédéric Peyrade, Philippe Follana, Cécile Michel, Emmanuel Chamorey
KEYWORDS:
Central Venous Catheter, Patient Satisfaction, Questionnaire, Cancer, Quality of Life
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Cancer Therapy,
Vol.5 No.7,
June
19,
2014
ABSTRACT: Rationale: Most cancer patients require a
totally-implanted Central Venous Catheter (CVC) for their treatment. We develop
and validate a French-language questionnaire dubbed QASICC (Questionnaire for
Acceptance of and Satisfaction with Implanted Central Venous Catheter)
assessing patient satisfaction with and acceptance of their CVC.Method: The construction and
first validation of the questionnaire was made using validated methodology
consisting in four phases. Phase 1 aimed at collecting a comprehensive list of
relevant items. Phase 2 consisted in converting items into questions followed
by a first item selection procedure. Phase 3 tested the acceptance of the
provisional module to a small number of patients. Phase 4 involved a first
validation on patients to determine its psychometric characteristics.Results: Responses to the
questionnaire were collected from 215 patients. The final tool included 27 questions
assessing seven dimensions: pain, contribution to the comfort of the treatment,
esthetics and privacy, impact on professional activities, social and sports,
impact on daily activities, local discomfort and overall satisfaction.Conclusions:
This first statistical validation seems very promising and allows us to confirm
the structure and the psychometric properties of the tool. Further validation
studies are required on standard and specific populations in order to confirm
these first results.