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• TITLE: Development of a Dietary Habit Self-Management Skills Scale for Post-Gastrectomy Cancer Patients in Japan

  AUTHORS: Miharu Ogasa

  KEYWORDS: Self-Management Skill, Gastric Cancer, Dietary Habit, Scale Development

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.9 No.13, December 11, 2017

  ABSTRACT: Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to develop a Dietary Habit Self-Management Skill (DHSMS) scale, and to test the reliability and validity of this scale. Methods: A questionnaire survey was then conducted using a 69-item DHSMS scale (second draft) for which content validity had been confirmed. The participants were post-gastrectomy cancer patients aged from 40 to under 80 years who had undergone initial gastrectomy with an interval of from 1 month since discharge to