Discordance between pediatric self‐report and parent proxy‐report symptom scores and creation of a dyad symptom screening tool (co‐SSPedi)

• Published in: Cancer medicine (Malden, MA) Vol. 9; no. 15; pp. 5526 - 5534
• Main Authors: Tomlinson, Deborah, Plenert, Erin, Dadzie, Grace, Loves, Robyn, Cook, Sadie, Schechter, Tal, Furtado, Jennifer, Dupuis, L. Lee, Sung, Lillian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Age; Age groups; cancer; Cancer therapies; child; Children; Children & youth; Clinical Cancer Research; Discordance; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Interviews; Original Research; Pediatrics; Self report; SSPedi; symptoms; symptoms; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; discordance; cancer; SSPedi; child

Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) (age 8‐18 years) and mini‐SSPedi (age 4‐7 years) can be used to self‐report and proxy‐report bothersome symptoms in pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments. There are limitations of sole child self‐report or proxy‐report. An approach in which chil...