A study in BMCCancer discusses BloodCAM—Cancer Awareness Measure for Blood Cancer—a new survey to measure symptom awareness and behaviours in relation to blood cancer diagnosis.
). Internal reliability of the scale was high . Item discrimination supports the ability of individual items to discriminate between those with high or low overall knowledge scores, indicated by item to total correlation ranging from 0.54 to 0.70, with the exception of persistent cough which yielded value of 0.
6), as was scale internal reliability . Body vigilance mean scores were similarly high with being ‘very aware of changes in my body’ having the highest score Both body vigilance and the item ‘I just know when something isn’t right’ had narrow IQR scores, although again the full scale was used by participants (Appendix Table
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