Impaired quality of life in patients commencing radiotherapy for cancer

Monika Janda; Beth Newman; Andreas Obermair; Hedwig Woelfl; Michael  Trimmel; Heidi Schroeckmayr; Joachim Widder; Richard Poetter

doi:10.1007/s00066-004-1160-2

Impaired quality of life in patients commencing radiotherapy for cancer

Monika Janda, Beth Newman, Andreas Obermair, Hedwig Woelfl, Michael Trimmel, Heidi Schroeckmayr, Joachim Widder, Richard Poetter

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Background: This study tested a three-item questionnaire to measure global quality of Life (QOL) and pain in patients commencing radiotherapy, based on items from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30 instrument.

Patients and Methods: In a pretest, the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the three-item short questionnaire were administered to 100 patients, yielding similar global QOL and pain scores. After the pretest, the three-item questionnaire was administered to 1,837 patients prior to first radiotherapy treatment.

Results: 254 (13.8%) patients with impaired QOL were identified. These patients had a mean global QOL score of 32.6 compared to 72.4 (p <0.001) found in patients with satisfactory QOL. Patients with impaired QOL were also more Likely <60 years and treated for lung, gastrointestinal or head and neck cancer or advanced, metastatic cancer.

Conclusion: This brief questionnaire addresses important aspects of QOL, is feasible to use in a clinical setting and therefore represents a potentially useful too[ for detecting those patients who may benefit from further evaluation and/or psychosocial support.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	78-83
Number of pages	6
Journal	Strahlentherapie und onkologie
Volume	180
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00066-004-1160-2
Publication status	Published - Feb-2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

cancer
radiotherapy
quality of life
screening
psychosocial support
ADVANCED BREAST-CANCER
EORTC QLQ-C30
EUROPEAN-ORGANIZATION
PALLIATIVE RADIOTHERAPY
RADIATION-THERAPY
DEPRESSION SCALE
HOSPITAL ANXIETY
PROGNOSTIC VALUE
NECK-CANCER
LUNG-CANCER

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