• Support Care Cancer · Sep 2015

    Supportive care needs of Mexican adult cancer patients: validation of the Mexican version of the Short-Form Supportive Care Needs Questionnaire (SCNS-SFM).

    • Svetlana V Doubova, Rebeca Aguirre-Hernandez, Marcos Gutiérrez-de la Barrera, Claudia Infante-Castañeda, and Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas.
    • Epidemiology and Health Services Research Unit CMN Siglo XXI, Mexican Institute of Social Security, Av. Cuahutemoc 330, Col. Doctores. Del. Cuahutemoc, 06720, Mexico City, Mexico, svetlana.doubova@gmail.com.
    • Support Care Cancer. 2015 Sep 1; 23 (9): 2711-9.

    PurposeThe purpose of this study is to validate the Mexican version of the Short-Form Supportive Care Needs survey (SCNS-SFM).MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted from June to December 2013 at the Oncology Hospital of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Mexico City. The study included 825 subsequent cancer patients >20 years of age with all forms of solid cancer. Patients had prior surgical removal of histologically confirmed cancer and attended outpatient consultations. Validation of SCNS-SFM included the following: (1) content validity through a group of experts; (2) construct validity through an exploratory factor analysis based on the polychoric correlation matrix; (3) internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha; (4) convergent validity between SCNS-SFM and quality of life, anxiety, and depression scales by calculating Pearson's correlation coefficient; (5) discriminative validity through analysis of MANOVAs; and (6) test-retest reliability using intraclass correlation coefficient calculations.ResultsSCNS-SFM has 33 items with five factors accounting for 59 % of total variance. Cronbach's alpha values ranged from 0.78 to 0.90 among factors. SCNS-SFM has good convergent validity compared with quality of life and depression and anxiety scales and good discriminative validity, revealing great information, psychological support, and physical daily living needs for women, patients <60 years, and high physical daily living needs for those with <1 year since cancer diagnosis, with advanced disease stages and current chemo- or radiotherapy. Intraclass correlation coefficient between SCNS-SFM measurements was 0.9.ConclusionSCNS-SFM has acceptable psychometric properties and is suitable to evaluate supportive care needs of cancer patients.

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