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Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics
Population-based surveys have shown that health-related quality of life (HRQL) is influenced by patients' characteristics such as age, gender, living situation and diagnoses. The present study explores the impact of such factors on the HRQL of severely ill cancer patients. The study sample incl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363932/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11720432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.2116 |
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author | Jordhøy, M S Fayers, P Loge, J H Saltnes, T Ahlner-Elmqvist, M Kaasa, S |
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description | Population-based surveys have shown that health-related quality of life (HRQL) is influenced by patients' characteristics such as age, gender, living situation and diagnoses. The present study explores the impact of such factors on the HRQL of severely ill cancer patients. The study sample included 395 cancer patients who participated in a cluster randomised trial of palliative care. Median survival was 13 weeks. HRQL assessments (using the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire) were compared among subgroups of relevant patients' characteristics (ANOVA), and the significance of individual covariates was explored by multivariate linear regression. Most EORTC QLQ-C30 scores showed minor differences between genders. Higher age was associated with less sleeping disturbance, less pain and better emotional functioning. No positive impact of living with a partner was found. Performance status and/or time from assessment to death were significantly associated with most functioning and symptom scores. We concluded that although the overall impact of sociodemographic characteristics may seem less important to HRQL scores among advanced cancer patients than in general populations, age and gender should be allowed for. Performance status and closeness to death also need to be reported. http://www.bjcancer.com © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign |
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spelling | pubmed-23639322009-09-10 Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics Jordhøy, M S Fayers, P Loge, J H Saltnes, T Ahlner-Elmqvist, M Kaasa, S Br J Cancer Regular Article Population-based surveys have shown that health-related quality of life (HRQL) is influenced by patients' characteristics such as age, gender, living situation and diagnoses. The present study explores the impact of such factors on the HRQL of severely ill cancer patients. The study sample included 395 cancer patients who participated in a cluster randomised trial of palliative care. Median survival was 13 weeks. HRQL assessments (using the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire) were compared among subgroups of relevant patients' characteristics (ANOVA), and the significance of individual covariates was explored by multivariate linear regression. Most EORTC QLQ-C30 scores showed minor differences between genders. Higher age was associated with less sleeping disturbance, less pain and better emotional functioning. No positive impact of living with a partner was found. Performance status and/or time from assessment to death were significantly associated with most functioning and symptom scores. We concluded that although the overall impact of sociodemographic characteristics may seem less important to HRQL scores among advanced cancer patients than in general populations, age and gender should be allowed for. Performance status and closeness to death also need to be reported. http://www.bjcancer.com © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign Nature Publishing Group 2001-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2363932/ /pubmed/11720432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.2116 Text en Copyright © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Jordhøy, M S Fayers, P Loge, J H Saltnes, T Ahlner-Elmqvist, M Kaasa, S Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
title | Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
title_full | Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
title_fullStr | Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
title_short | Quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
title_sort | quality of life in advanced cancer patients: the impact of sociodemographic and medical characteristics |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363932/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11720432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.2116 |
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