Assessing unmet needs in patients with cancer: An investigation of differential item functioning of the Needs Evaluation Questionnaire across gender, age and phase of the disease

• Francesca Chiesi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Chiesi, Andrea Bonacchi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: francesca.chiesi@unifi.it

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research, and Child Health (NEUROFARBA) -Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6861-9219

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• Andrea Bonacchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Chiesi, Andrea Bonacchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro Studi e Ricerca Synthesis, Florence, Italy

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• Caterina Primi ,

  Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research, and Child Health (NEUROFARBA) -Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy

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• Guido Miccinesi

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cancer Research and Prevention–ISPO, Clinical and Descriptive Epidemiology Unit, Florence, Italy

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