Development of a module to supplement the EORTC Core instruments for assessment of Health Related Quality of Life in patients with Cancer Cachexia - EKSG 12/091; CTU 12-11 - Project

Project

Development of a module to supplement the EORTC Core instruments for assessment of Health Related Quality of Life in patients with Cancer Cachexia - EKSG 12/091; CTU 12-11

Automatically Closed · 2011 until 2016

Strasser Florian, Wilm Simone

Type

Clinical Studies

Range

Multicentric, KSSG as participating partner

Units

Zentrum für Integrative Medizin, Neurologie

Status

Automatically Closed

Start Date

2011

End Date

2016

Financing

Others

Study Design

Qualitative Study

Partner

Sally Wheelwright, University of Southampton PI: Colin Johnson (QLG, NCRI Palliative Care Studies Group cachexia subgroup), European Palliative Care Research Collaborative (EPCRC): Ken Fearon, Jane Hopkinson, Florian Strasser, Stein Kaasa, Augusto Caraceni EORTC Quality of Life Group (QLG): Deborah Fitzsimmons, John Ramage, Eva Hammerlid, Richard Vergunst, Monica Pinto Collaborating centres: Southampton, Edinburgh, Swansea, United Kingdom; St Gallen, Switzerland; Trondheim Norway, Milano, Naples Italy, Johannesburg South Africa, Gothenburg Sweden

Brief description/objective

Aims
1. To develop a module to supplement the EORTC QLQ core module, for the assessment of QoL in patients with cancer cachexia.

2. To explore the possible need for parallel development of separate modules for cachexia syndrome, refractory cachexia and secondary cachexia.

Method
The module will be developed according to the EORTC Quality of Life Group guidelines for questionnaire module development[31]. In Phase 1, a list of relevant QoL issues will be generated. In Phase 2, a questionnaire (provisional item list) from the list of selected issues will be created. Phase 3 comprises initial testing of the provisional item list in 6 countries. Each of these phases is described in more detail below.