This indicated that some modifications for the items of Worry and Communication subscales in Toddler version scale were necessary.
However, it is found that there were several items of Worry and Communication subscales in the parent proxy-report, i.e. "worrying about side effects from medical treatments", had a high missing rate.
For children, the first item of 'worry' (worrying about side effects from medical treatments) loaded on the 'nausea' factor.
The first item of 'worry' (worrying about side effects from medical treatments) loaded on the 'nausea' factor, and the second and third items of 'worry' (worrying about whether the medical treatments were working and worrying about reoccurrence or relapse) loaded on the 'communication' factor in the child self-report.
Interestingly, the emotional category item of being worried factored with this group of items.
This 36-item instrument consists of 8 subscales: Physical Functioning (6 items), Emotional Functioning (5 items), Social Functioning (4 items), Cognitive Functioning (5 items), Communication (3 items), Worry (5 items), Daily Activities (3 items) and Family Relationships (5 items).
Drought related concerns: A single Likert scale item rating level of worry about drought was collapsed from a 5-point to a 2-point scale, with 1 3 coded as low worry and 4 5 coded as high.
It is structurally composed of 27 items distributed among 8 subscales: pain and hurt (2 items), nausea (5 items), procedural anxiety (3 items), treatment anxiety (3 items), worry (3 items), cognitive problems (5 items), perceived physical appearance (3 items) and communication (3 items).
It consists of 27 items distributed to 8 subscales: pain and hurt (2 items), nausea (5 items), procedural anxiety (3 items), treatment anxiety (3 items), worry (3 items), cognitive problems (5 items), perceived physical appearance (3 items) and communication (3 items).
The second and third items of 'worry' (worrying about whether or not his/her medical treatments are working, worrying that the cancer will reoccur or relapse) loaded on the 'communication' factor, This suggests that patients have a difficult time communicating with medical staff when they worry about treatment efficacy and/or relapse.
Likewise, in the case of items 8 (I've felt depressed) and 18 (I've been worried when I think about the illness), it was decided to retain item 8 as the concept of worry was covered by item 19.
