Validación ecológica del programa FORT (Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy): una adaptación del español mexicano al español castellano: reporte preliminar
Date
2023-07-20Permanent link
https://hdl.handle.net/11351/11293DOI
10.5209/psic.91525
ISSN
1696-7240
Abstract
Introduction: Fear of recurrence is one of the most specific psychological problems faced by
cancer patients. Their increase in life expectancy, and survival, makes them increasingly aware of the
emotional consequences, and living with the so-called Sword of Damocles Syndrome is undoubtedly
one of the most important. Fear of recurrence can become disabling and affect their emotional wellbeing, leading to the development of therapeutic programs like FORT (Fear of Recurrence Therapy)
developed by Maheu and Lebel. This therapy is being adapted to different languages and cultures,
including Mexican Spanish by Gálvez. Objective: In this preliminary work, we aim to present the first
data on adapting FORT from Mexican Spanish to European Spanish. Methods: The procedure used
was to follow the ecological validation method proposed by Bernal, by two skilled psychooncologists.
Results: The assessment of different concepts and terminologies by the two psychooncologists in an
independent way, the analysis yielded a high Kappa index (from 0.8 to 1) for the 8 dimensions of Bernal.
Conclusions: This preliminary study will be followed by a similar process for the patient manual by
professionals and breast cancer patients.
Keywords
Fear of relapse; Breast cancer; FORT TherapyBibliographic citation
Estapé T, Gondón N, Gálvez-Hernandez CL, Rivera-Olvera I, Lebel S, Estapé J, et al. Validación ecológica del programa FORT (Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy): una adaptación del español mexicano al español castellano: reporte preliminar. Psicooncología (Pozuelo de Alarcon). 2023 Jul 20;20(2):255-265.
Audience
Professionals
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