Considerations in Selecting, Collecting, and Interpreting Outcome Measures for Symptom Science in Oncology

IF 2.3 4区医学 Q1 NURSING

Seminars in Oncology Nursing Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.soncn.2025.151948

Sandra A. Mitchell

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Abstract

Objectives

To review recent literature about the considerations, challenges and tradeoffs when selecting and interpreting symptom measures in patients diagnosed with cancer.

Method

A narrative review of peer-reviewed literature, relevant theory, and international consensus guidance relevant to the measurement of symptoms using patient-reported outcomes, performance-based, instrumented, and clinician-reported measures.

Results/Conclusions

Theoretical, psychometric, operational and study design considerations influence symptom instrument selection decisions in observational studies, clinical trials (both supportive care trials and therapeutic trials of anticancer therapies), and population surveillance. Multiple well-validated single symptom and multisymptom measures exist to measure cancer and cancer-treatment related symptoms.

Implications for Nursing Practice

Exploration of how contrasting measurement approaches can yield complementary insights into the symptom experience and the effectiveness of symptom management strategies remains an underdeveloped area of cancer symptom science.

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肿瘤症状科学的选择、收集和解释结果测量的考虑。

目的：回顾最近的文献关于选择和解释癌症患者的症状测量时的考虑、挑战和权衡。方法：对同行评议的文献、相关理论和国际共识指南进行叙述性回顾，这些指南使用患者报告的结果、基于表现的、仪器的和临床报告的测量方法来测量症状。结果/结论：理论、心理测量、操作和研究设计因素影响观察性研究、临床试验（支持治疗试验和抗癌治疗的治疗试验）和人群监测中症状工具的选择决策。存在多种有效的单症状和多症状测量方法来测量癌症和癌症治疗相关症状。对护理实践的影响：探索对比测量方法如何对症状体验和症状管理策略的有效性产生互补的见解，仍然是癌症症状科学的一个不发达领域。

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Seminars in Oncology Nursing Nursing-Oncology (nursing)

CiteScore

3.40

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审稿时长

45 days

期刊介绍： Seminars in Oncology Nursing is a unique international journal published six times a year. Each issue offers a multi-faceted overview of a single cancer topic from a selection of expert review articles and disseminates oncology nursing research relevant to patient care, nursing education, management, and policy development.