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The Toronto Informational Needs Questionnaire of Breast Cancer (TINQ-BC)

BL Birhan Legese
AA Adamu Addissie
MG Muluken Gizaw
WT Wondemagegnhu Tigneh
TY Tesfa Yilma
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TINQ-BC was developed to assess specific informational needs of breast cancer populations, such as patients being treated by surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy.37–39 It was widely used in the world including African countries like Zambia40 and Egypt41,42 and it has the potential to assess the information needs of women with breast cancer on an international basis.43

The development and initial testing of the instrument was outlined by Galloway et al (1997) “To elicit women’s perception of their information needs related to their experience of breast cancer despite the ceiling effect of the instrument”.39 It was even applied effectively to other cancer patients such as prostate cancer.44

TINQ-BC contains 52 item scales, measuring the following five subscales of information needs, namely, diseases, treatment, physical, investigative tests, and psychosocial with a minimum score of 52 and a maximum of 260, the mean score to represent higher information needs is 200 and above.39

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