title: Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure preferences and expectations of patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy: EXPECT questionnaire.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective was to design and validate the questionnaire for capturing palliative chemotherapy-related preferences and expectations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Single arm, unicentric, prospective observational study.
  
  
  METHODS
  EXPECT questionnaire was designed to capture preferences and expectations of patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy. This questionnaire underwent a linguistic validation and then was tested in patients. Ten patients are undergoing chemotherapy for solid tumors who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria self-administered the EXPECT questionnaire in regional language. After filling this questionnaire, they self-administered quick questionnaire-10 (QQ-10). SPSS version 16 (IBM New York) was used for analysis. Completion rate of EXPECT questionnaire was calculated. The feasibility, face validity, utility and time taken for completion of EXPECT questionnaire was also assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The completion rate of this questionnaire was 100%. All patients completed questionnaire within 5 min. The QQ-10 tool confirmed the feasibility, face validity and utility of the questionnaire.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  EXPECT questionnaire was validated in the regional language, and it's an effective tool for capturing patient's preferences and expectation from chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Hematology and Medical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
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authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Hematology and Medical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Jithin
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dessai
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Sajith Babu
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Hematology and Medical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Raghavan
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Geetha
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: T Shiva
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Cancer Palliative Medicine, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Biji
authors.affiliation: Department of Division of Clinical Research and Biostatistics, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhattacharjee
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Hematology and Medical Oncology, Malabar Cancer Center, Moozhikkara, Kodiyeri, Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala, India.
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authors.lastname: Nair
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*