Question

A Randomized, Clinical Trial of Education
or Motivational-Interviewing–Based Coaching Compared to Usual Care to Improve Cancer Pain Management

Mary Laudon Thomas, RN, MS, AOCN®, Janette E. Elliott, RN-BC, MS, AOCN®, Stephen M. Rao, Ph.D., Kathleen F. Fahey, RN, MS, CNS, Steven M. Paul, Ph.D., and Christine Miaskowski, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

Despite important advances in its management, cancer pain remains a significant clinical problem (Apolone et al., 2009; McGuire, 2004; van den Beuken-van Everdingen et al., 2007). In a meta-analysis, cancer pain was found in 64% of patients with metastatic disease, 59% of patients receiving antineoplastic therapy, and 33% of patients who had received curative cancer treatment (van den Beuken- van Everdingen et al., 2007). Cancer pain also has a negative effect on patients’ functional status (Ferreira et al., 2008; Holen, Lydersen, Klepstad, Loge, & Kassa, 2008; Vallerand, Templin, Sasenau, & Riley-Doucet, 2007) and is associated with psychological distress (Cohen et al., 2003; Vallerand, Hasenau, Templin, & Collins-Bohler, 2005). The effect of cancer pain on an individual’s quality of life (QOL) can be significant and extend beyond disturbances in mood and physical function (Burckhardt & Jones, 2005; Dahl, 2004; Fortner et al., 2003).

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Please give the reliability and validity of the above article

Answer 1

Validity :

It is defined as the appropriateness and correctness and meaningfulness and usefulness of the scientific interferences it is done by the researchers based on the data what they are collected.

Or

the instrument measures what it is intended to measure is called validity.

Here the validity of above article is the cancer pain is nothing but a clinical problem of the client.

Reliability :

It is defined as it is a degree to which an assessment tool will give stable and correct results.

Like test retest methods,

The reliability of above research article is cancer pain is having negative effects on patients functional status and is associated with psychological distress and it affects the individual quality of life like disturbances in mood and physical functions which we can see and measures after this cancer affect.