Content validation of the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL with advanced cancer patients and health care professionals from palliative care services in Chile

Table 2 Relevance, inappropriateness and importance of items reported by 48 patients and 35 health care professionals

Scale/item	Item	Relevance (mean)		% Inappropriate		% Selected as one of the most important
		Pts.	HCPs	Pts.	HCPs	Pts.	HCPs	/2^a
Pain (PA)	9	100	97	0	0	96	77
Pain (PA)	19	97	80	2	6	27	54
Any PA item						98	94	96
Physical functioning (PF)	1	77	64	6	9	40	3
	2	78	63	2	0	25	3
	3	76	73	4	3	17	9
	4	83	85	6	3	23	51
	5	98	95	0	0	60	71
Any PF item						98	80	89
Sleeping difficulties (SL)	11	97	95	0	0	75	86	80
Emotional functioning (EF)	21	95	63	0	3	19	6
	22	93	68	0	2	21	11
	23	92	73	0	0	21	17
	24	98	89	0	0	38	60
Any EF item						73	83	78
Nausea and vomiting (NV)	14	96	88	0	0	25	54
Nausea and vomiting (NV)	15	97	87	0	0	35	46
Any NV item						46	69	57
Fatigue (FA)	10	97	67	2	3	50	6
	12	92	73	0	3	31	20
	18	92	74	2	3	42	14
Any FA item						77	34	56
Social functioning (SF)	26	93	89	2	3	31	54
Social functioning (SF)	27	88	83	4	0	8	31
Any SF item						38	60	49
Lack of appetite (AP)	13	99	86	0	0	35	57	46
Role functioning (RF)	6	95	79	0	0	50	23
Role functioning (RF)	7	82	57	2	6	31	6
Any RF item						60	26	43
Constipation (CO)	16	92	83	0	0	29	54	42
Financial difficulties (FI)	28	93	81	4	3	35	49	42
Global health status/	29	97	90	0	0	8	23
Quality of life (QOL)	30	95	89	0	3	15	49
Any QL item						23	54	39
Dyspnea (DY)	8	70	70	2	3	46	17	31
Cognitive functioning (CF)	20	90	54	0	3	21	6
Cognitive functioning (CF)	25	97	67	0	0	15	14
Any CF item						33	17	25
Diarrhea (DI)	17	93	79	2	0	17	20	18

The scales/items are ranked according to importance. Items in bold form were extracted from the EORTC QLQ-C30 to form the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL questionnaire
^a The mean of the values for patients (Pts.) and health care professionals (HCPs)

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