The invention relates to the technical field of
esophageal cancer treatment, in particular to an
esophageal cancer radiotherapy patient symptom evaluation scale development and
verification method, which comprises the following steps: constructing an initial entry
pool; entries are screened to form a preliminary scale; performing preliminary
simulation evaluation on the scale; cognizing and explaining scale entries and giving feedback; carrying out characteristic
verification based on psychology; performing association degree
verification based on the items and the core symptoms; and scale determination and application are realized based on a verification result. According to the
esophageal cancer radiotherapy patient symptom
assessment scale and the development and verification method thereof, the development process of the
assessment scale is ensured through multi-dimensional entry
pool construction, multi-round
Delphi method screening and a
system verification mechanism, and entries with low association degree with core symptoms are systematically eliminated, so that each entry is ensured to have
clinical significance and reference value, and the development and verification of the esophageal
cancer radiotherapy patient symptom
assessment scale is facilitated. The entry design is optimized through the patient interviews and the cognitive interviews, so that the scale is ensured to fit the real feelings of the patient, and evaluation deviation caused by obscure terms or irrelevant entries is avoided.