SSPedi

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Proxy SSPedi

Proxy SSPedi is a 15 item symptom screening tool for guardians of children receiving cancer treatment and undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant; it is reliable, valid and responsive to change for parents or guardians of children 2-18 years.

Key publications

Hyslop S, Dupuis LL, Baggott C, et al. Validation of the Proxy Version of Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool in Children Receiving Cancer Treatments. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018 Jul;56(1):107-112. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.03.025. Epub 2018 Apr 6. PMID: 29630923.

Mini SSPedi

Mini SSPedi is a 15 item symptom screening tool for children receiving cancer treatment and undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant; it is reliable, valid and responsive to change in children 4-7 years.

Key publications

Tomlinson, D., Dupuis, L.L., Johnston, D.L. et al. Reliability and validity of proxy-SSPedi and mini-SSPedi in pediatric patients 2-7 years receiving cancer treatments. BMC Cancer 22, 730 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09814-8

Co-SSPedi

Co-SSPedi is a dyadic (child-guardian) 15 item symptom screening tool for children and their guardians for children receiving cancer treatment and undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant, and their guardians; it is reliable, valid and responsive to change in children 4-7 years (co-mini SSPedi) and 8-18 years (co-SSPedi).

Key publications

Tomlinson D, Dupuis LL, Dix D, Crellin-Parsons N, Cook S, Kulkarni K, Schechter T, Tomlinson GA, Sung L. Validation of co-Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool: a novel dyadic approach to symptom screening in pediatric patients receiving cancer treatment. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2024 Jan 10;116(1):160-166. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djad181. PMID: 37672037.

If you are interested in translating and validation SSPedi into another language, please reach out to sung.research@sickkids.ca. The following translation validation paper can be used for reference.

Plenert E, Grimes A, Sugalski A, et al. Translating the Symptom Screening in Paediatrics Tool (SSPedi) into North American Spanish and Among Spanish-speaking children receiving cancer treatments: evaluating understandability and cultural relevance in a multiple-phase descriptive study. BMJ Open. 2020 Nov 12;10(11):e037406. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037406. PMID: 33184077; PMCID: PMC7662419.