title: The breast cancer treatment response inventory: development, psychometric testing, and refinement for use in practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the development, testing, and utility of the Breast Cancer Treatment Response Inventory (BCTRI), an instrument that captures the symptom experience of women with breast cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  Journal articles and results of research studies used to establish BCTRI psychometric properties.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The tool is a valid and reliable method to determine and monitor numbers of symptoms, the severity of those symptoms, and the amount of distress experienced by patients. It is an easily and quickly employed assessment tool to guide and evaluate interventions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The BCTRI has strong psychometric properties and is a valid and reliable instrument to measure symptom experience among populations of breast cancer survivors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Data collected using the BCTRI provide information that healthcare providers can use to target interventions toward symptoms that are most troublesome or distressful. The BCTRI can be used at meaningful points in treatment, recovery, and ongoing survivorship to explore the emerging concept of symptom experience in samples that reflect socioeconomically and ethnically diverse populations.
authors.affiliation: New York University Hospitals Center, USA. wendy.budin@nyu.edu [corrected]
authors.forename: Wendy C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Budin
authors.forename: Frances
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cartwright-Alcarese
authors.forename: Carol Noll
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Hoskins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000295:instrumentation; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires