Secondary outcomes
anxiety, BADS-SF, GAD symptoms [FACT-G, pain, ’s behaviors, NRS
ADVANCED CANCER
Secondary outcomes consist of the change from the pre-intervention scores to the post-intervention scores on the following psychosocial measures: (1) GAD-7, (2) FACT-G, (3) FACIT-Sp-12, (4) BADS-SF, (5) VQ, (6) NRS, and (7) one item on pain in IPOS.GAD-7 is a measure used to assess subjective anxiety. GAD-7 is a seven-item questionnaire developed to identify probable cases of GAD and to measure the severity of GAD symptoms [FACT-G is a measure used to assess quality of life [FACIT-Sp-12 is a measure used to assess QOL that includes spirituality, which is important for patients with advanced cancer in clinical practice. It is a QOL assessment scale consisting of 12 items related to spirituality developed by Cella et al. [BADS-SF is a measure used to assess the degree of BA and avoidance. BADS-SF was developed to assess changes in behavior resulting from BA [VQ is a measure used to assess whether patients are engaging in value placing behaviors. VQ is a 10-item self-reported questionnaire that measures the degree to which one’s behaviors are consistent with their values [NRS is a measure used to assess the degree of pain associated with physical symptoms. NRS asks for a pain score on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being no pain at all and 10 being the worst possible pain. It has been used in actual clinical practice and has been validated for both reliability and validity [One item on pain in IPOS assesses the extent to which pain interferes with life. IPOS is a holistic assessment instrument for palliative care that was validated in 2016 by Schildmann et al. The Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) [