Williams P D, Ducey K A, Sears A M, Williams A R, Tobin-Rumelhart S E, Bunde P
University of Kansas School of Nursing, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160-7052, USA.
Int J Nurs Stud. 2001 Jun;38(3):359-67. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7489(00)00067-5.
Oncology patients receiving chemotherapy (n=109) and radiation therapy RT (n=161) reported symptom concerns and severity on the 25-item therapy-related symptom checklist (TRSC). Secondary analysis of the self-reports of the two treatment groups was done using the Mann-Whitney U Test. Thirteen symptoms differed significantly between the two groups. RT patients reported significantly greater severity of five symptoms (p<0.05) during therapy. Chemotherapy patients reported significantly greater severity of eight different symptoms. The other 14 items showed a heterogeneous pattern of self-reported patient symptom concerns. The TRSC appears to be a clinically useful self-report checklist that captures the more important symptom concerns of both RT and chemotherapy patients. Earlier efforts to develop this checklist are reviewed briefly.
