Alla Sikorskii, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, College of Natural Science; and Gwen Wyatt, RN, PhD, is Professor, College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
David Victorson, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Gwen Faulkner, BA, is Research Assistant, Center on Outcomes, Research and Education, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois.
Mohammad Hossein Rahbar, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and is Director, Biostatistics/Epidemiology/Research Design (BERD) Core, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Accepted for publication July 13, 2009.
This research was supported by grant R01 CA104883 from the National Cancer Institute. The contents represent original work and have not been published elsewhere. No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.
Corresponding author: Alla Sikorskii, PhD, Department of Statistics and Probability, A423 Wells Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (e-mail: [email protected]).