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Quality of life profile in Italian long-term cancer survivors
- Source :
- Quality of Life Research. 24:959-967
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2014.
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Abstract
- Understanding the quality of life (QoL) of long-term cancer survivors is relevant to daily clinical practice as well as to healthcare policy. This study assessed QoL of Italian survivors and tested the association between QoL and the main clinical and socio-demographic sample’s characteristics. Two hundred and sixty-five Italian adult long-term cancer survivors (people free from cancer and its treatments for at least 5 years) were administered the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30, the Impact of Cancer, and the Short Form 36 questionnaires obtaining three different QoL profiles—cancer-specific, survivorship-specific, and generic. In both cancer-specific and generic QoL profiles, participants reported a lower general health and a higher social functioning than normative samples; in addition, they reported low emotional functioning and vitality, respectively, in the former and latter profile. In the survivorship-specific profile, participants scored higher on personal growth and altruism (p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
Pain
Emotional functioning
Vitality
Quality of life
Neoplasms
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survivorship curve
medicine
Humans
Survivors
Aged
Long-Term Cancer Survivors
business.industry
Health Policy
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Cancer
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
humanities
Italy
Unemployment
Quality of Life
Physical therapy
Normative
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732649 and 09629343
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quality of Life Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8757df27cde3f8541b4199c1834d3645