Development of Coping Scale for postoperative dysfunction in patients with prostate cancer

2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21890241
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Tohoku Fukushi University
• Principal Investigator: SATOH Daisuke Tohoku Fukushi University, 健康科学部, 助教 (20524573)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2010
• Keywords: 前立腺がん / 術後機能障害 / 対処行動 / 尺度開発

Research Abstract

This study, the dysfunction after prostate cancer surgery, to develop a tool to measure how easily doing what the patient coping, we confirm its reliability and validity Is. Semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 subjects with prostate cancer patients, and the drafting of the coping scale 26 items. The survey questionnaire and then 118 subjects, Cronbach's α coefficient for all items in all items was 0.81. Factor analysis was also determined that five factors can be interpreted properly.