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Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in people following treatment for head and neck cancer
OBJECTIVES: Appearance is a factor within head and neck cancer health-related quality of life measures; however, the issue of self-perceived appearance has received scant attention. Self-portraiture may provide insight into the patient’s perspective, allowing people to provide viewpoints that are no...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31308946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312118820345 |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Appearance is a factor within head and neck cancer health-related quality of life measures; however, the issue of self-perceived appearance has received scant attention. Self-portraiture may provide insight into the patient’s perspective, allowing people to provide viewpoints that are not easily accessible. This research investigates the methodology of drawing and responses from patient-completed questionnaires in a head and neck cancer population. METHODS: A sample of 30 people at least 3 months post-treatment for head and neck cancer were recruited. Participants completed the Derriford Appearance Scale, University of Washington Quality of Life scale, and two drawings: (1) how they recall themselves pre-treatment and (2) how they see themselves post-treatment. They were asked to discuss the methodology and their experience of it. RESULTS: Correlations with Derriford Appearance Scale, University of Washington Quality of Life scale, and size drawings failed to find relationships between these variables. Post-treatment drawings were significantly smaller than pre-treatment. Qualitative analysis of the drawings found differences between the images. Participants related how drawing gave an opportunity to voice concerns that questionnaires and clinic appointments did not. CONCLUSION: Drawing can elicit distinctly different information about a person following treatment for head and neck cancer than that provided by health-related quality of life measures. Further research would clarify if clinical opinion matches patients’ drawing. |
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spelling | pubmed-66041192019-07-15 Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in people following treatment for head and neck cancer Harding, Sam Bradford, John SAGE Open Med Original Article OBJECTIVES: Appearance is a factor within head and neck cancer health-related quality of life measures; however, the issue of self-perceived appearance has received scant attention. Self-portraiture may provide insight into the patient’s perspective, allowing people to provide viewpoints that are not easily accessible. This research investigates the methodology of drawing and responses from patient-completed questionnaires in a head and neck cancer population. METHODS: A sample of 30 people at least 3 months post-treatment for head and neck cancer were recruited. Participants completed the Derriford Appearance Scale, University of Washington Quality of Life scale, and two drawings: (1) how they recall themselves pre-treatment and (2) how they see themselves post-treatment. They were asked to discuss the methodology and their experience of it. RESULTS: Correlations with Derriford Appearance Scale, University of Washington Quality of Life scale, and size drawings failed to find relationships between these variables. Post-treatment drawings were significantly smaller than pre-treatment. Qualitative analysis of the drawings found differences between the images. Participants related how drawing gave an opportunity to voice concerns that questionnaires and clinic appointments did not. CONCLUSION: Drawing can elicit distinctly different information about a person following treatment for head and neck cancer than that provided by health-related quality of life measures. Further research would clarify if clinical opinion matches patients’ drawing. SAGE Publications 2019-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6604119/ /pubmed/31308946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312118820345 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Harding, Sam Bradford, John Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
title | Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in
people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
title_full | Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in
people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
title_fullStr | Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in
people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in
people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
title_short | Drawing: A novel approach to understanding appearance change in
people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
title_sort | drawing: a novel approach to understanding appearance change in
people following treatment for head and neck cancer |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31308946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312118820345 |
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