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Acceptability of an Electronic Self-Report Assessment Program for patients with cancer . Eliciting symptom and quality of life information from patients is an important component of medical and nursing care processes . Traditionally , this information has been collected with paper and pencil . However , this approach presents several barriers , including delays in receiving information , difficulty in integrating responses with electronic records , and the time required to manually score questionnaires for measurement purposes . One solution that addresses many of these barriers is the adoption of computerized screening for symptom and quality-of-life information . This research explored the acceptability of asking symptom and quality-of-life questions using the Electronic Self Report Assessment-Cancer program on wireless laptops equipped with touch-screen format . Acceptability data were explored with respect to whether any differences may be attributed to demographics and symptom and quality-of-life levels , such as depression and cognitive and emotional functioning . This evaluation used descriptive and univariate statistics to examine data from 342 participants from the ongoing ESRA-C randomized clinical trial . Research participants for the ESRA-C study were recruited from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance , a consortium among the University of Washington Medical Center , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , and Children 's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle , WA . The sample consisted of 342 adult participants who completed both baseline and follow-up survey sessions . Medical oncology represented the largest recruitment group ( 45.3 % ) , followed by stem cell transplant ( 34.5 % ) and radiation oncology ( 20.2 % ) . The primary finding was that patients were generally able to use ESRA-C quickly and without difficulty in a real-world clinical setting and that they were overall quite satisfied with the ESRA-C program . Significant differences were found in several acceptability areas with respect to demographics and quality of life measures such as age , sex , and severe distress . This analysis confirms that the ESRA-C application for collecting symptom and quality of life information is easy for patients to use and acceptable across a range of user characteristics . We intend to build on our work by using the survey platform in other modalities while ensuring that the patient 's preferences are considered at all times .
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Intervention_Educational
Electronic Self-Report Assessment Program
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Intervention_Educational
adoption of computerized screening for symptom and quality-of-life information
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Intervention_Educational
using the Electronic Self Report Assessment-Cancer program on wireless laptops equipped with touch-screen format .
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Intervention_Educational
ESRA-C
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Intervention_Educational
ESRA-C
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Intervention_Educational
ESRA-C
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Intervention_Educational
ESRA-C program
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Intervention_Educational
ESRA-C application for collecting symptom and quality of life information
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Outcome_Other
acceptability
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Outcome_Other
Acceptability data
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Outcome_Other
quality-of-life levels
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Outcome_Mental
depression and cognitive and emotional functioning
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Outcome_Mental
able to use ESRA-C quickly
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Outcome_Other
satisfied with the ESRA-C program
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Outcome_Other
acceptability
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Participant_Condition
342 participants from the ongoing ESRA-C randomized clinical trial .
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Participant_Condition
recruitment group