Table 2

NEQ answers distribution missing data and reliability coefficients for each item (N = 182)

Item number
Item text
% of Yes
% of missing data

1
I need more information about my diagnosis
40
1
2
I need more information about my future conditions
61
2
3
I need more information about the exams I am undergoing
35
0
4
I need more explanations on treatments
32
1
5
I need to be more involved in the therapeutic choices
30
1
6
I need clinicians and nurses to give me more comprehensible information
32
0
7
I need clinicians to be more sincere with me
20
0
8
I need to have a better dialogue with clinicians
45
1
9
I need my symptoms (pain, nausea, insomnia, etc.) To be better controlled
24
1
10
I need more help for eating, dressing, and going to the bathroom
11
0
11
I need more respect for my intimacy
18
1
12
I need more attention from nurses
13
1
13
I need to be more reassured by the clinicians
34
1
14
I need better services from the hospital (bathrooms, meals, cleaning)
59
1
15
I need to have more economic-insurance information (tickets, invalidity, etc..) In relation to my illness
40
3
16
I need economic help
19
1
17
I need to speak with a psychologist
17
1
18
I need to speak with spiritual assistant
13
1
19
I need to speak with people who have had my same experience
39
1
20
I need to be more reassured by my relatives
12
1
21
I need to feel more useful in my family
28
0
22
I need to feel less abandoned to myself
18
1
23
I need to be less commiserated by other people
19
2

Tamburini et al. BMC Cancer 2003 3:12   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-3-12