Stability of distress and health-related quality of life as well as relation to neuroticism, coping and TNM stage in head and neck cancer patients during follow-up

Beisland, Elisabeth Grov; Aarstad, Anne Kari Hersvik; Østhus, Arild André; Aarstad, Hans Jørgen

doi:10.3109/00016489.2012.720032

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“…When analysed by primary tumour size divided into three groups, it was found that patients with the largest tumour size had lower HRQoL. This is in accordance with previous results concerning other cancer patient groups [14]. Somewhat unexpected was the finding that the presence or absence of distant metastasis was not associated with HRQoL scores.…”

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Health-related quality of life in long-term survivors after renal cancer treatment

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Beisland²,

Hjelle³

et al. 2013

Scandinavian Journal of Urology

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Health-related quality of life in long-term survivors after renal cancer treatment

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Hjelle³

et al. 2013

Scandinavian Journal of Urology

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“…Indeed, Watson and Pennebaker stated that ''individuals high in neuroticism are more likely to over-report physical symptoms and to experience negative emotions in response to difficult circumstances and consequently report a lower QoL.'' 46 Several studies that performed objective health assessments demonstrated associations between self-rated QoL and not only objective assessment measures, but also personality in patients with head and neck cancer 11,47 and colorectal disease. 10 However, until now there has been no evidence of an association among objective oral function, personality traits, and QoL.…”

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Association of personality traits with oral health-related quality of life independently of objective oral health status: A study of community-dwelling elderly Japanese

Takeshita

Ikebe

Kagawa

et al. 2015

Journal of Dentistry

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“…HRQoL has become an increasingly studied topic [26] and relate to various aspects of diseases like outcome [27,28], but also to survival [29,30]. As such, it is interesting to note that the voice-related cancer patients in fact, scores with the least pathological value of the various disease groups.…”

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The Norwegian Voice Handicap Index (VHI-N) patient scores are dependent on voice-related disease group

Karlsen

Heimdal

Grieg³

et al. 2015

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

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The aim of this study is to determine to what extent the Voice Handicap Index-Norwegian (VHI-N) is scored depending on specific laryngological disease. In a multi-center study, 126 healthy subjects and 355 patients with different voice-related diseases answered the VHI-N. The VHI-N scores showed high Cronbach's alpha. Analyses of variance were performed with VHI-N dependent and specific voice-related disease as independent variable, and showed highly significant dependence by group allocation (F(7,461) = 28.0; p < 0.001). When studying post hoc analyses secondary to this ANOVA analysis, we have shown that the control group scored lower than the entire patient groups (all p < 0.001) except the dysplasia group. Aphonic patients scored higher than all the other groups (all p < 0.001) except those with spasmodic dysphonia. The cancer patient group furthermore scored lower than patient groups with recurrent palsy, dysfunctional disease or spasmodic dysphonia (all p < 0.001). In addition, patients with recurrent palsy scored higher than patients with degenerative/inflammatory disease (p < 0.001). No influences of patient age, gender, or smoking were observed in the VHI-N scores. The VHI-N is a psychometrically well-functioning instrument, also at disease-specific levels and discriminates well between health and voice diseases, as well as between different voice-related diseases. The VHI-N may be recommended to be used when monitoring voice-related disease treatment.

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Stability of distress and health-related quality of life as well as relation to neuroticism, coping and TNM stage in head and neck cancer patients during follow-up

Abstract: The GHQ scores were stable, whereas the HRQoL sum scores declined slightly (p < 0.001). The GHQ and the HRQoL scores were predicted by neuroticism, avoidant coping pattern, T stage and smoking history, but primarily H&N-specific HRQoL was predicted by treatment-derived factors.

Cited by 29 publications

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Health-related quality of life in long-term survivors after renal cancer treatment

Health-related quality of life in long-term survivors after renal cancer treatment

Association of personality traits with oral health-related quality of life independently of objective oral health status: A study of community-dwelling elderly Japanese

The Norwegian Voice Handicap Index (VHI-N) patient scores are dependent on voice-related disease group

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