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Shoulder Pain, Functional Status, and Health-Related Quality of Life after Head and Neck Cancer Surgery.
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Rehabilitation Research & Practice . 2013, p1-10. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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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]
- Subjects :
- *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
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20902867
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Rehabilitation Research & Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94644582
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/601768