Assessing cancer patients’ quality of life and supportive care needs: Translation-revalidation of the CARES in Flemish and exhaustive evaluation of concurrent validity

Table 6 Composition of questionnaires for quantitative data collection

Questionnaires	Instrument	Data collected
Questionnaire 1
T ₀ Baseline	Self-administered questions on socio-demographic and medical aspects	Age, sex, marital status, children, education, employment status, household income, social surrounding, involved care providers, diagnosis, date of diagnosis, treatment(s), start and end dates of treatments.
	CARES	Quality of life and rehabilitation needs
	KPS	Physical and daily functioning
	HADS	Symptoms of anxiety and depression
	SSL	Social support
	MMQ	Marital and sexual life adjustment
	EORTC-QOL-C30	Quality of life
	DT + PL	Distress and problems
	Care needs questionnaire administered by E. Pauwels	Care needs
Questionnaire 2
T ₁ After 1 week	CARES	Quality of life and rehabilitation needs
	Self-administered questions	Relevance of CARES-topics, timespan filling in, mode preference,…

Abbreviations CARES Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System, KPS Karnofsky Performance status Scale, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, SSL Social Support List, MMQ Maudsley Marital Questionnaire, EORTC-QLQ -C30 European Organisation of Research and Treatment for Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30, DT Distress Thermometer, PL Problem List

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