Instrument for assessing social network support for women with breast cancer.
Diego Augusto Lopes Oliveira, Vânia Pinheiro Ramos, Luciana Pedrosa Leal and 3 others
PMID 42524952WHAT IT FOUND
A 47-item tool for assessing social network support in women receiving breast cancer chemotherapy passed content and wording checks by nurses and patients.
It is not yet shown to improve care.
Key findings
01The final instrument has 47 items for assessing social network support in women with breast cancer during chemotherapy.
02Ten nurses rated the first 60 items as clear, pertinent and relevant, with mean content validity scores of 0.944, 0.959 and 0.931.
03Eight women checked wording; items 16, 19, 35 and 46 were reworded after some had difficulty understanding them.
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What it does not show
Only eight women checked the wording, so the instrument may not be clear for patients with different backgrounds or abilities. The study tested content and semantic validity, not whether the instrument improves care. Only two nurses took part in the final consensus phase, so fewer perspectives were included than in the first phase. Nurse judges were found through a snowball search of nursing CVs, so they may not represent all oncology nurses.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this as proof that using the tool improves care. It only shows that ten nurses rated the items as clear and relevant and that eight women helped check the wording.