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Developing an outcome measurement for meaning‐making intervention with Chinese cancer patients
Author(s) -
Chan Timothy H. Y.,
Ho Rainbow T. H.,
Chan Cecilia L. W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/pon.1134
Subject(s) - psychosocial , meaning (existential) , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , medicine , cancer , intervention (counseling) , outcome (game theory) , scale (ratio) , psychology , psychotherapist , nursing , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , mathematical economics
Psychosocial programs designed for cancer patients often facilitate the search for meaning as one of the therapeutic components. This study aimed to develop a self‐report instrument, namely Chinese Cancer Coherence Scale (CCCS), which measures the patients' meaning‐making process with reference to the concept of coherence. A panel of eight veteran social workers and psychologists generated statements pertaining to the cancer experience. Results from a two‐phase study involving 390 breast cancer patients revealed a two‐factor structure of the CCCS, namely incoherent‐embittered and coherent‐enlightened . The use of the CCCS by practitioners and researchers is recommended in order to understand how Chinese cancer patients make sense of their cancer experience. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.