Psychological impact of cancer scale: Turkish validity and reliability study
Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fırat University, Elazığ 23100, Turkey
Seda Karaman, Faculty of Nursing, Atatürk University, Erzurum 25240, Turkey
Meyreme Aksoy, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Siirt University, Siirt 56500, Turkey
Author contributions: Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan contributed to the conceptualization, methodology, investigation, original draft, review and editing, supervision; Seda Karaman contributed to the conceptualization, investigation, original draft, review and editing, supervision; Meyreme Aksoy contributed to the conceptualization, investigation, data curation, review and editing.
Institutional review board statement: Fırat University Non-Interventional Research Ethics Committee (2020/12 numbered) approved the study. Official permission was taken through e-mail from the researcher who developed the scale for adapting the scale into Turkish and using the scale in the study. Helsinki Declaration of Human Rights was adhered to while carrying out the study. Verbal consent was taken from study participants after the aim of the study was explained.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There was no commercial involvement in the conduct of this study. Also, none of the authors are members of the editorial board.
Data sharing statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fırat University, Rectorate Campus, Exterior Door No. 2, Elazığ 23100, Turkey. glcnbah@hotmail.com
Received: January 4, 2023
Peer-review started: January 4, 2023
First decision: February 8, 2023
Revised: February 12, 2023
Accepted: April 25, 2023
Article in press: April 25, 2023
Published online: June 19, 2023
