Patient-Centred Assessment of Symptoms and Activities (P-CASA)

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dc.contributor.authorTomori, Christine
dc.contributor.supervisorBavelas, Janet Beavin
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-07T22:39:45Z
dc.date.available2011-11-07T22:39:45Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-11-07
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Patient-Centred Assessment of Symptoms and Activities (P-CASA) is a new idiographic, open-ended assessment that examines each individual patient’s symptoms within the context of his or her daily life. P-CASA asks patients for their most important activities, what interferes with these activities, and any coping strategies. This thesis presents the rationale and design of P-CASA and its first validation study. Sixty patients at the Pain and Symptom Management/Palliative Care Clinic of the BC Cancer Agency (Vancouver Island Centre) completed P-CASA and the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS), which is the current nomothetic assessment at the Clinic. The results demonstrated that P-CASA was not redundant with ESAS because it assessed (a) information about patients’ activities and coping strategies, which the ESAS does not; (b) all relevant cancer-related symptoms (not just pain or a fixed list); (c) co-occurring symptoms; (d) more specific details and different priorities about symptoms than in their ESAS.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3660
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectSymptom Assessmenten_US
dc.subjectCanceren_US
dc.subjectPalliative Careen_US
dc.subjectPatient-Centred Careen_US
dc.subjectPsychometricsen_US
dc.subjectIdiographic Assessmenten_US
dc.subjectIdiographicen_US
dc.subjectAssessmenten_US
dc.subjectCancer Careen_US
dc.subjectAdvanced Canceren_US
dc.subjectOutpatientsen_US
dc.subjectPainen_US
dc.subjectSymptomsen_US
dc.subjectPain and Symptom Managementen_US
dc.titlePatient-Centred Assessment of Symptoms and Activities (P-CASA)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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