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Therapy Impact Questionnaire

Name of Questionnaire

Description

Instrument designed for quality of life assessment in general cancer patients with advanced disease.

Developer

M Tamburini, S Rosso, A Gamba, E Mencaglia, F de Conno, V Ventafridda

Address

Marcello Tamburini, PhD
Director, Division of Psychological Research
National Cancer Institute
Via Venezian 1
20133 Milan, Italy

E-mail

tamburini@istitutotumori.mi.it

Cost & availability

A request for permission to use instrument can be submitted online at the URL above.

Administration

Self or provider

Time to complete

Not reported

Number of items

Domains & categories

Name of categories/domains

Physical symptoms, functional status, concomitant emotional and cognitive factors, social interaction

Scaling of items

4-point verbal Likert scale (not at all, slight, a lot, very much)

Scoring

Not reported

Reliability

Not tested (reproducibility tested and found by the parallel forms method - patients were reteseted with a shorter parallel form rather than with the entire instrument)¹
Internal consistency: Reported¹

Validity

Not reported

Responsiveness

Not reported

Minimally important difference

Not reported

Research use

Reported - association between quality of life and prognosis²

Clinical use

Not reported

Language

Italian (English version not yet validated)

References

Tamburini M, Rosso S, Gamba A, et al. A therapy impact questionnaire for quality-of-life assessment in advanced cancer research. Ann Oncol 1992;3:565-70.
Buccheri GF, Ferrigno D, Tamburini M, et al. The patient's perception of his own quality of life might have an adjunctive prognostic significance in lung cancer. Lung Cancer 1995;12:45-58.

Date of information

May 1999