Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : The Psychosocial Screen for Cancer (PSSCAN): Further validation and normative data | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research The Psychosocial Screen for Cancer PSSCAN Further validation and normative data Wolfgang Linden 1 2 A Andrea Vodermaier1 Regina McKenzie2 Maria C Barroetavena2 3 Dahyun Yi4 and Richard Doll2 Open Access Address Department of Psychology University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada 2British Columbia Cancer Agency Vancouver Canada 3Department of Health Care Epidemiology University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada and 4Department of Psychology Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena CA USA Email Wolfgang Linden - wlinden@ A Andrea Vodermaier - avorderma@ Regina McKenzie - rmacken@ Maria C Barroetavena - barroet@ Dahyun Yi - dahyunyi@ Richard Doll - rdoll@ Corresponding author Published 24 February 2009 Received 23 May 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 16 doi 1477-7525-7-16 Accepted 24 February 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 16 2009 Linden et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background We have previously reported on the development of a cancer-specific screening instrument for anxiety and depression PSSCAN . No information on cut-off scores or their meaning for diagnosis was available when PSSCAN was first described. Needed were additional analyses to recommend empirically justified cut-off scores as well as data norms for healthy adult samples so as to lend meaning to the recommended cut-off scores. Methods We computed sensitivity specificity indices based on a sample of 101 cancer patients who had provided
