Quality of Life in Rectal Cancer Patients

Abstract

Anterior resection and nonstoma patients, despite suffering micturition and defecation problems, had better quality of life scores than abdominoperineal extirpation and stoma patients. Comparisons between abdominoperineal extirpation and anterior resection patients should consider the effect of temporary stomas. Improvements in quality of life scores over time may be explained by reversal of temporary stomas or physiologic adaptation.

Quality of life in Malaysian colorectal cancer patients

“…However, the majority of the respondents were 55-59 years old (36.3%), which is a relatively younger population age group. This is in agreement with studies from Western countries, such as that by Braun et al (2011) from the USA and by Engel et al (2003) from Germany; however, Tsunoda et al (2005) from Japan showed that the majority (43.0%) of their respondents were older than 70 years due to the ageing effect of the population.…”

“…The mean functional score in the present study ranged between 87.33 (IQR 16.71) and 95.21 (IQR 11.58). This is slightly higher than studies by Engel et al (2003) and Braun et al (2011). However, respondents' symptom scores in the present study are similar with other studies.…”

“…Respondents' mean functional and symptom scores were compared with other studies (Engel et al 2003, Tsunoda et al 2005, Braun et al 2011. The mean functional score in the present study ranged between 87.33 (IQR 16.71) and 95.21 (IQR 11.58).…”

“…Normality check for all scores indicated that all of the scales measured were not normally distributed due to skewness of the variables data, which commonly occurs in QOL data (Engel et al 2003). Therefore, the analysis of QOL data mainly used non-parametric statistical analysis, while other data analysis used parametric analysis, depending on the normality of the data tested.…”

Quality of Life and Psychological Well-Being of Colorectal Cancer Survivors in Jordan

“…Although in our study there was no statistically significant difference in body image between stoma and non-stoma users, previous studies showed statistically significant difference between them. A study from Germany showed that this difference persisted at end of years one, two and three post-diagnosis (Engel et al, 2003).…”