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Table 7 The psychometric properties of assessment tools used in patients with a diagnosis of brain tumor

From: Comparison of content and psychometric properties for assessment tools used for brain tumor patients: a scoping review

Assessment instrument Reliability Validity Responsiveness Time Research group References
Test–retest Inter-rater Intra-rater Content Structural Criterion
EORTC QLQ-BN20    +   +   +   n = 891, brain tumor Taphoornet al. [27]
   +*   +    < 10 min n = 350, glioma, meningioma Shin and Kim [28]
   +   +   +   n = 194, brain tumor Khoshnevisan et al. [29]
   +   +     n = 100, brain tumor Bunevičius et al. [30]
EORTC QLQ-C30    +*    − + 13–14 (SD 12) min n = 366, brain tumor Cheng et al. [31]
FACT-Br +   +   +     n = 500, brain tumor Arli and Gurkan [32]
+§   +†,‡   +    5 to 10 min n = 101, brain tumor Weitzner et al. [33]
+†     +   +   n = 62, metastases in the brain Thavarajah et al. [34]
SF-36    +   +    10 [40,41,42,43,44,45] min n = 277, brain tumor Bunevičius et al. [30]
  1. For interpretation of “+” and “−” for each property: Internal reliability: “+” Cronbach’s ɑ or ICC ≥ 0.70; “−” Cronbach’s ɑ or ICC < 0.70;
  2. Test/retest method: “+” ICC ≥ 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/ Spearman rank correlation coefficient ≥ 0.80; “−” ICC < 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/Spearman rank correlation coefficient < 0.80;
  3. Interrater reliability: “+” ICC ≥ 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/ Spearman rank correlation coefficient ≥ 0.80; “−” ICC < 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/Spearman rank correlation coefficient < 0.80;
  4. Content validity: “+” The content of the assessment instrument is adequate, comprehensive, questions and tasks chosen to adequately reflect the content to be evaluated; “ –” Not all selected questions and tasks reflect the content, content is not relevant, comprehensive;
  5. Criterion validity: “+” Significant and stable relation between measurement and another instrument (r ≥ 0.70) or with start/end measurement; “ –” Poor measurement correlation with another instrument (r < 0.70) or start/end measurement;
  6. Structural validity: “+” Correlation with instruments measuring the same ≥ 0.50 or correlation higher for unrelated elements in the instrument than for unrelated ones; “−” Correlation with instruments measuring the same < 0.50 or correlation with related elements in the instrument is lower than unrelated ones;
  7. Responsiveness: “+” Able to detect clinically significant changes over time; “−” Cannot detect clinically significant changes over time
  8. SD, standard deviation
  9. *Except Cognitive scale; †Except Social, family wellbeing domains; ‡Except Interaction with a physician domain; §Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—General questionnaire analyzed
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