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The Information Needs of New Radiotherapy Patients: How to Measure? Do They Want to Know Everything? And if Not, Why?
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purposeto establish 1 psychometric properties information preference radiotherapy patients scale iprp 2 information new radiotherapy patients want receive 3 patients lower information needmethods materialseligible patients n 159 response rate 54 15 radiation oncologists completed iprp provided background characteristics first radiotherapy consultation exclusion criteria age 18 years undergone radiotherapy unable read write dutch cognitive problems brain tumorresultsreliability cronbachs alpha 084097 concurrent validity r 39 57 p 0001 subscales iprp good new radiotherapy patients want extensive information disease treatment procedures side effects prognosis mean scores 41 44 scale 1 5 less information psychosocial issues mean 34 patients older male lung rectal cancer difficulty understanding higher trait anxiety level need less informationconclusionsthe iprp reliably validly address information needs patients undergoing radiation treatment new radiotherapy patients want much information yet information giving tailored according background understanding anxiety establish 1 psychometric properties information preference radiotherapy patients scale iprp 2 information new radiotherapy patients want receive 3 patients lower information need eligible patients n 159 response rate 54 15 radiation oncologists completed iprp provided background characteristics first radiotherapy consultation exclusion criteria age 18 years undergone radiotherapy unable read write dutch cognitive problems brain tumor reliability cronbachs alpha 084097 concurrent validity r 39 57 p 0001 subscales iprp good new radiotherapy patients want extensive information disease treatment procedures side effects prognosis mean scores 41 44 scale 1 5 less information psychosocial issues mean 34 patients older male lung rectal cancer difficulty understanding higher trait anxiety level need less information iprp reliably validly address information needs patients undergoing radiation treatment new radiotherapy patients want much information yet information giving tailored according background understanding anxiety