Validation and limitations of the distress thermometer in identifying depression among metastatic breast cancer patients in Nigeria: Methodological challenges in depression-specific screening validation

• Tejen Chavda,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Abdulrazzaq Lawal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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• Anthonia Sowunmi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Biology, Radiotherapy and Radiodiagnosis, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria

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• Bolanle Adegboyega,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Biology, Radiotherapy and Radiodiagnosis, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria

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• Adewumi Alabi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Biology, Radiotherapy and Radiodiagnosis, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria

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• Chen-Chih Chung,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Taipei Medical University—Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Sylvia Shirima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Building Research and Implementation to Drive Growth and Equity in Africa (BRIDGEAfrica), Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Donaldson F. Conserve,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Community Health and Prevention, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Oluwaseun Adebayo Bamodu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dr_bamodu@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Building Research and Implementation to Drive Growth and Equity in Africa (BRIDGEAfrica), Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Bethesda Achievers Consultancy, LLC, Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8229-0408

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