1. Shoulder Pain, Functional Status, and Health-Related Quality of Life after Head and Neck Cancer Surgery.
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Hsiao-Lan Wang, Keck, Juanita F., Weaver, Michael T., Mikesky, Alan, Bunnell, Karen, Buelow, Janice M., and Rawl, Susan M.
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GONIOMETRY (Anatomy) , *BODY image , *STATISTICAL correlation , *HEAD tumors , *HEALTH status indicators , *INGESTION , *RANGE of motion of joints , *LIFE skills , *RESEARCH methodology , *NECK tumors , *QUALITY of life , *REGRESSION analysis , *RESEARCH , *RESEARCH funding , *STATISTICAL sampling , *SHOULDER pain , *SPEECH disorders , *PILOT projects , *WELL-being , *PAIN measurement , *ABDUCTION (Kinesiology) , *DATA analysis software , *FUNCTIONAL assessment , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,RESEARCH evaluation - Abstract
Head and neck cancer (HNC) patients experience treatment-related complications that may interfere with health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The purpose of this study was to describe the symptom experience (shoulder pain) and functional status factors that are related to global and domain-specific HRQOL at one month after HNC surgery. In this exploratory study, we examined 29 patients.The outcome variables included globalHRQOL as well as physical, functional, emotional, and social well-being. Symptom experience and functional status factorswere the independent variables. In the symptomexperience variables, shoulder pain distress was negatively associated with physical well-being (R2 = 0.24). Among the functional status variables, eating impairment was negatively related to global HRQOL (R2 = 0.18) and physical well-being (R2 = 0.21). Speaking impairment and impaired body image explained a large amount of the variance in functional well-being (R2 = 0.45). This study provided initial results regarding symptom experience and functional status factors related to poor HRQOL in the early postoperative period for HNC patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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