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The challenge of measuring intra-individual change in fatigue during cancer treatment
Authors:Carol M. Moinpour  Gary W. Donaldson  Kimberly M. Davis  Arnold L. Potosky  Roxanne E. Jensen  Julie R. Gralow  Anthony L. Back  Jimmy J. Hwang  Jihye Yoon  Debra L. Bernard  Deena R. Loeffler  Nan E. Rothrock  Ron D. Hays  Bryce B. Reeve  Ashley Wilder Smith  Elizabeth A. Hahn  David Cella
Affiliation:1.Public Health Sciences Division,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [Emerita],Seattle,USA;2.Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology,University of Utah,Salt Lake City,USA;3.Health Services Research,Georgetown University Medical Center, and Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center,Washington,USA;4.Seattle Cancer Care Alliance,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,Seattle,USA;5.Hematology/Oncology,Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System,Charlotte,USA;6.Cancer Prevention Program, Public Health Sciences Division,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,Seattle,USA;7.The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,Bethesda,USA;8.Departments of Medicine and Health Services Research,University of California Los Angeles,Los Angeles,USA;9.Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Chapel Hill,USA;10.Outcomes Research Branch,National Cancer Institute,Bethesda,USA;11.Department of Medical Social Sciences and Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes,Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,Chicago,USA
Abstract:

Purpose

To evaluate how well three different patient-reported outcomes (PROs) measure individual change.

Methods

Two hundred and fourteen patients (from two sites) initiating first or new chemotherapy for any stage of breast or gastrointestinal cancer participated. The 13-item FACIT Fatigue scale, a 7-item PROMIS® Fatigue Short Form (PROMIS 7a), and the PROMIS® Fatigue computer adaptive test (CAT) were administered monthly online for 6 months. Reliability of measured change was defined, under a population mixed effects model, as the ratio of estimated systematic variance in rate of change to the estimated total variance of measured individual differences in rate of change. Precision of individual measured change, the standard error of measurement of change, was given by the square root of the rate-of-change sampling variance. Linear and quadratic models were examined up to 3 and up to 6 months.

Results

A linear model for measured change showed the following by 6 and 3 months, respectively: PROMIS CAT (0.363 and 0.342); PROMIS SF (0.408 and 0.533); FACIT (0.459 and 0.473). Quadratic models offered no noteworthy improvement over linear models. Both reliability and precision results demonstrate the need to improve the measurement of intra-individual change.

Conclusions

These results illustrate the challenge of reliably measuring individual change in fatigue with a level of confidence required for intervention. Optimizing clinically useful measurement of intra-individual differences over time continues to pose a challenge for PROs.
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