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Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General.

FACT-G

What it measures
Cancer/chronic-illness HRQoL across 4 wellbeing domains: Physical, Social/Family, Emotional, Functional
Length and format
27 items. 5-point Likert (0-4); summed to subscale and total scores (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
60+ languages via the FACIT translation program
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Cella, D. F., et al. (1993). The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 11(3), 570-579.

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