Rational: The absence of a specific tool to evaluate the impact of supportive care in general and socioesthetics (SE) in particular is undoubtedly at the origin of the lack of published research based on scientific standards.
Objective: We developed a supportive-care, patient-reported outcome questionnaire using the multistep methods, following COSMIN recommendations.
Methods: The Patient Centricity Questionnaire (PCQ) was developed using the standardized methodology for designing patient-reported outcome (PRO) questionnaires according to the following steps: elaboration of the questionnaire, measurement properties of the questionnaire, internal and external validation, test-retest validation and translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and cognitive debriefing.
Socio-aesthetics has become very popular in recent years. Suffering from a lack of recognition and in the absence of a regulatory framework, it is still too often associated, in a somewhat caricatured way, with softness, relaxation or cocooning. While it is certainly a profession whose vocation is to "cause well-being", this is not its only mission.
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