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peds FAACT-10

Pediatric Functional Assessment of Anorexia/Cachexia Treatment – 10 item version

Pediatric Functional Assessment of Anorexia/Cachexia Treatment – 10 item version

Overview

Overview

Below are the details for the peds FAACT measure:

MEASURE NAME:

Pediatric Functional Assessment of Anorexia/Cachexia Treatment – 10 item version

VERSION:

2

NUMBER OF ITEMS:

10

PATIENT POPULATION:

Pediatric cancer patients 8-18 years old

RECALL PERIOD:

Past 7 days

RESPONSE SCALE:

5 point Likert-type scale

DATA COLLECTION:

Paper and electronic

ADMINISTRATION:

Self-administration and interview when applicable

SUBSCALE DOMAINS:

Not available

TIME FOR COMPLETION:

Less than 5 minutes

SCORING:

Manual scoring template, some items are reverse scored. Total scores possible.

RELATED MEASURES:

Language Availability

Available translations of the peds FAACT-10 can be obtained by registering for permission. Users are not permitted to translate the peds FAACT-10 without permission from FACIT.org. Permission from FACIT.org to translate the peds FAACT-10 may also be contingent upon timeline expectations and availability of FACIT staff. Translations must undergo a rigorous methodology under the guidance of FACIT.org which includes multiple translators, QA steps and cognitive interviews with patients. For commercial use, FACITtrans is the approved translation vendor to translate the FACIT measurement system.

Please contact us for more information.

Language Availability
Licensing

Licensing

Licensing fees are assessed on a per trial/per measure basis for commercial use. There is no fee for use of the English version, but a license should be obtained.

Non-commercial use is assessed on a case-by-case basis. Licensing fees are typically not applied to investigator-initiated research, students, or clinical use.

To license an available version of this measure for commercial or non-commercial use, please complete our registration form. All of the information provided in the form will be kept strictly confidential. For questions, please contact us.

Selected References

Selected References

Bonomi, A.E., Cella, D.D., Hahn, E.A., Bjordal, K., Sperner, B., Gangeri, L., Bergman, B., Willems, J., Hanquet, P., & Zittoun, R.  Multilingual translation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) quality of life measurement system.  Quality of Life Research 1996; 5: 309-320.


Eremenco, S., Arnold, B., Cella, D. A comprehensive method for the translation and cross-cultural validation of health status questionnaires. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2005; 28(2): 212-232.


Webster K., Cella D., Yost K. The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) measurement system: Properties applications, and interpretation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003; 1(1): 79-85.


Yost K.J., Eton D.T. Combining distribution- and anchor-based approaches to determine minimally important differences: The FACIT experience. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2005; 28(2): 172-191.

Related Measures

Related Measures

peds FACT-Br

Pediatric Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy – Brain

peds FACIT-F

Pediatric Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy – Fatigue

peds FAACT

Pediatric Functional Assessment of Anorexia/Cachexia Treatment

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