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Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System (CARES)

 
CARES and CARES-SF (Short Form)
 

Author(s)

Coscarelli Anne; Heinrich Richard L

 

Purpose

  • Pathology:

Neoplasms

  • Disease:

Generic for neoplasms

  • Objective:

To assess the quality of life of cancer patients and to document problems and concerns so that they might be addressed by professionals who treat these patients as part of comprehensive care

  • Population for intended use:

Adult

Geriatrics

 
 

Characteristics

  • Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

Physical functioning

Psychological functioning (incl. coping)

Signs and symptoms

  • Administration mode:

Self-administered

  • Number of items:

CARES: Maximum of 139, CARES-SF: Maximum of 59

  • Recall/Observation period:

The past month including Today

 
 

Language(s)

  • Original language:

English for the USA

  • List of existing translations:

The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.

CARES

Spanish for the USA
Swedish for Sweden
 

Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Schag CA, Ganz PA, Polinsky ML, Fred C, Hirji K, Petersen L. Characteristics of women at risk for psychosocial distress in the year after breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 1993; 11:783-93


Ganz PA, Schag CA, Lee JJ, Sim MS. The CARES: a generic measure of health-related quality of life for patients with cancer. Qual Life Res 1992; 1:19-29


Schag CA, Ganz PA, Heinrich RL. CAncer Rehabilitation Evaluation System-short form (CARES-SF). A cancer specific rehabilitation and quality of life instrument. Cancer 1991; 68:1406-13


Schag CA, Heinrich RL. Development of a comprehensive quality of life measurement tool: CARES. Oncology (Huntingt) 1990; 4:135-8


Schag CA, Heinrich RL, Aadland RL, Ganz PA. Assessing problems of cancer patients: psychometric properties of the cancer inventory of problem situations. Health Psychol 1990; 9:83-102


Heinrich RL, Schag CC, Ganz PA. Living with cancer: the Cancer Inventory of Problem Situations. J Clin Psychol. 1984 Jul;40(4):972-80

Last update: April 2012

Last update in collaboration with the author: October 2002