MDASI Thyroid Cancer Module
The MD Anderson Symptom Inventory for thyroid cancer (MDASI-Thy) is a site-specific MDASI module. Along with the core MDASI’s 13 symptom items and 6 interference items, the MDASI-Thy also assesses 6 symptoms specific to thyroid cancer:
- hoarseness
- feeling hot
- feeling cold
- racing heartbeat
- difficulty swallowing
- diarrhea
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Every MDASI Module Contains...
All 13 MDASI core symptoms
pain, fatigue, nausea, disturbed sleep, distress, shortness of breath, difficulty remembering, lack of appetite, drowsiness, dry mouth, sadness, vomiting, numbness/tingling
All 6 MDASI interference items
general activity, mood, work, relations with others, walking, enjoyment of life
MDASI-Thy Features
- Purpose: To assess the severity of multiple thyroid cancer-related symptoms and the impact of these symptoms on daily functioning
- Population: Patients with symptoms caused by thyroid cancer and its treatment
- Assessment areas: Severity of multiple symptoms and the impact of symptoms on daily functioning during the last 24 hours
- Method: Self-report; paper-and-pencil form or tablet PC (self-administered or via interview), or telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) system
- Time required: Five minutes
- Scoring: Please see the MDASI User's Guide
- Reliability: Cronbach alpha reliability ranges from 0.76 to 0.92
MDASI-Thy Language Versions
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| Psychometrically and Linguistically Validated | Linguistically Validated |
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| English | Bengali Danish Dutch French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Italian Kannada Korean Malayalam Marathi Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Russian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu |
Selected MDASI-Thy References
Validation
Gning I, Trask PC, Mendoza TR, et al. Development and initial validation of the thyroid cancer module of the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory. Oncology 76(1): 59-68, 2009.
Cleeland CS, Mendoza TR, Wang XS, et al. Assessing Symptom Distress in Cancer: The M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory. Cancer 89:1634-1646, 2000.