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The Benefit Finding Scale for breast cancer
Cancer patients experience positive as well as adverse consequences from diagnosis and treatment . The Benefit Finding scale for breast cancer assesses the perception that positive contributions were made to one's life by the experience of being diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. The original scale was developed by Vicki Helgeson at Carnegie Mellon University. The authors of the updated scale wrote a few additional items and distilled the set down a little by removing difficult and redundant items. In an intervention study, the items tended to form a single factor. In a later...
Measure of Current Status (MOCS)
The Measure of Current Status (MOCS) scale comes from research on the effects of a multi-modal cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention on the psychosocial well-being of breast cancer patients. An important question is whether the intervention's beneficial effects have several sources or one principle source. In order to probe for possible "active ingredients" behind the intervention’s effects, Carver developed a brief measure called the Measure of Current Status, or MOCS. The MOCS has two sections. Part A is items measuring participants' current self-perceived status on...
Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS)
Many measures of quality of life (QOL) have been developed for assessment of cancer patients. Most of these measures, however, were developed for use during the period of treatment following diagnosis. Because of increasing interest in the experiences of long-term cancer survivors, authors have developed a measure specifically for use with persons who are 5 or more years past their cancer diagnosis. The development of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) began with in-depth interviews with 59 long-term survivors, followed by generation of an item pool that was further...
Survey for Senior Leadership
RAND aims to improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. One of this think tank's focuses is on improving chronic illness care evaluation. This RAND Survey for Senior Leadership is a tool for measurement of senior leadership in healthcare organisations. By completing this survey you will be contributing to your organization’s efforts to improve the quality of care for your patients.
Survey for Quality Management Director(s)
This survey was designed by RAND'S 'Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE)' collaborative. This survey is one of their instruments designed to provide practical guidance to health care organizations seeking to improve care for patients with chronic disease. The evaluation team conducted consistent, independent assessments across participating sites, and addressed critical questions about organizational efforts to implement changes and improve care.RAND's Survey for Quality Management Directors is designed by RAND for use by quality management directors in the health service...
Curiosity and Exploration Inventory (CEI)
The Day Reconstruction Method (DRC)
The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) assesses how people spend their time and how they experience the various activities and settings of their lives, combining features of time-budget measurement and experience sampling. Participants systematically reconstruct their activities and experiences of the preceding day with procedures designed to reduce recall biases. The benefits of the DRM as outlined by the authors are: joint assessment of activities and subjective experiences, information about the duration of each experience, allowing for duration weighted analyses of experiences, lower...
Derogation of Competitors Instrument
The purpose of the derogation of competitors instrument is to measure for the likelihood of persons to form derogation tactics for competitor. Verbal signals are sometimes used to manipulate the impressions that people form about oneself and others. For the goal of self-enhancement, one can manipulate impressions either by elevating oneself or derogating others. Five hypothesis about derogation of same sex competitors were generated from an evolutionary model of human-mate competition. These hypothesis focused on sex-differences in the importance that humans attach to external resources,...
