is a clinical psychologist, certified EU psychotherapist (EAP), Polish certified psycho-oncology supervisor (PTPO), an assistant professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. Couple Counselling as a Part of Psycho-Social Care in Oncology
Furthermore, we will introduce methods for quantitative (psychometric) validation.ĪM 9:00am – 12:30pm 2.
Then we will introduce the rationale and goals of the PRO instruments (measures) translation and LV process using actual examples including PRO-CTCAE and PRPMIS translation from English to Korea. The workshop will begin with updating the recent trends of PRO, important concepts for understanding of PRO, significance, ideal properties, types, development and evaluation of PRO instruments.
There are a number of novel PRO measures through its therapeutic area working groups and clinical trial sponsors (e.g., pharmaceutical firms) seeking to use these newly developed PRO measures frequently require translation and cultural adaptation of the tools for use in global clinical development programs, which together with cognitive interviewing of the resulting translations is known as linguistic validation (LV). Now-a-days there is significant discussion about patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in medical world. Understanding process of linguistic and psychometric validation of the PROM.Understanding process of development and evaluation of PRO measures (PROM).Knowing recent trends of PRO, important concepts for understanding of PRO, significance, ideal properties, and types PRO instruments.Researchers, clinicians, nurses who are plan to validate English version of patient-reported outcomes or quality of life measures into their own languages and use them for clinical and research settings As part of her work, she has had to develop or validate a variety of measuring tools as well as to measure patient reported health using the developed tools. Kang is conducting several quantitative observational studies and clinical trials to find out the vulnerable patients and to generate clinical evidences using statistic methods. Her primary research interests are the psycho-social problems caused by chronic disease. Kang is a trained behavior scientist and clinical epidemiologist. As part of her work, she has had to develop or validate a variety of measuring tools for survivorship and health-related quality of life for cancer survivors in Korea and other Asian countries.ĭr. Cho is leading several qualitative and quantitative observational studies and clinical trials to find out the needs of cancer patients and their families, as well as to develop and implement the education programs both in clinic and in communities. Her primary research interests are the psycho-social problems caused by cancer and its treatment. Cho is a trained behavior scientist and epidemiologist. Cross-cultural validation of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measurements: challenges and solutionsĭr.