Page No., 296-306.
Padmaja Gadiraju, C. Vanlalhruaii & Suvashisa Rana
Centre for Health Psychology, University of Hyderabad
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Cancer interrupts the life of the person diagnosed with the disease and their caregivers,
it may also result in change in activities such as social and general stability of the life of
both patients and caregivers. These changes have potential ramifications for relationship
adjustment and the ways in which the patients and caregivers relate to and support one
another. Therefore, our main objectives were to construct a self-report scale to measure
the interpersonal relationship between patients with cancer and their caregivers and
examine the different psychometric issues as well as to establish preliminary validation
in the development of this scale. Two hundred and fifty dyads consisting of patient with
breast cancer, head and neck cancer and their family caregivers were selected. Findings
indicated that majority of the dimensions for both Form A and B of CANSIRS have high
alpha coefficient. The results of factor analysis and preliminary validation were also
discussed. The present study findings show that the scale developed with further factor
analytic research, could become useful clinical tools
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