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Article: Quality of life in head and neck cancer survivors at 1 year after treatment: the mediating role of unmet supportive care needs

TitleQuality of life in head and neck cancer survivors at 1 year after treatment: the mediating role of unmet supportive care needs
Authors
KeywordsChinese
Supportive care needs
Quality of life
Path analysis
Head and neck cancer survivors
Issue Date2014
Citation
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2014, v. 22, n. 11, p. 2917-2926 How to Cite?
Abstract© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Results: The final path model showed that optimism, educational level, any coexisting disease, number of somatic symptoms, household income, eating ability, support from others, whether the cancer is under control or not and travelling time from home to hospital have direct or indirect effects, or both, on the QoL of HNC survivors, by way of unmet SCNs in the psychological, physical and/or health system information domains, which account for 64 % of the variance in the total FACT-H&N score.Conclusions: Our study demonstrated the mediating effects of SCNs in the association between HNC survivors and their QoL. Early needs assessment may help healthcare professionals to identify the actual needs of these survivors, and providing the information that HNC survivors want is a significant factor in meeting their psychological needs and thereby improving their overall QoL.Methods: A total of 285 Chinese HNC survivors who had finished cancer treatment 1 year earlier completed a self-reported survey covering demographic and clinical characteristics, the Chinese version of the Short-Form Supportive Care Needs Questionnaire (SCNS-SF34-C), the supplementary module of access to healthcare and ancillary support services and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer (FACT-H&N).Purpose: The aim of the study was to test a hypothesised model that supportive care needs (SCNs) have a mediating effect on the relationship between characteristics of (Chinese) head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors and their quality of life (QoL).
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/282106
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2023 Impact Factor: 2.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.007
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dc.contributor.authorSo, Winnie K.W.-
dc.contributor.authorChoi, K. C.-
dc.contributor.authorChen, Joanne M.T.-
dc.contributor.authorChan, Carmen W.H.-
dc.contributor.authorChair, S. Y.-
dc.contributor.authorFung, Olivia W.M.-
dc.contributor.authorWan, Rayman W.M.-
dc.contributor.authorMak, Suzanne S.S.-
dc.contributor.authorLing, W. M.-
dc.contributor.authorNg, W. T.-
dc.contributor.authorYu, Bernice W.L.-
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-29T07:36:04Z-
dc.date.available2020-04-29T07:36:04Z-
dc.date.issued2014-
dc.identifier.citationSupportive Care in Cancer, 2014, v. 22, n. 11, p. 2917-2926-
dc.identifier.issn0941-4355-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/282106-
dc.description.abstract© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Results: The final path model showed that optimism, educational level, any coexisting disease, number of somatic symptoms, household income, eating ability, support from others, whether the cancer is under control or not and travelling time from home to hospital have direct or indirect effects, or both, on the QoL of HNC survivors, by way of unmet SCNs in the psychological, physical and/or health system information domains, which account for 64 % of the variance in the total FACT-H&N score.Conclusions: Our study demonstrated the mediating effects of SCNs in the association between HNC survivors and their QoL. Early needs assessment may help healthcare professionals to identify the actual needs of these survivors, and providing the information that HNC survivors want is a significant factor in meeting their psychological needs and thereby improving their overall QoL.Methods: A total of 285 Chinese HNC survivors who had finished cancer treatment 1 year earlier completed a self-reported survey covering demographic and clinical characteristics, the Chinese version of the Short-Form Supportive Care Needs Questionnaire (SCNS-SF34-C), the supplementary module of access to healthcare and ancillary support services and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer (FACT-H&N).Purpose: The aim of the study was to test a hypothesised model that supportive care needs (SCNs) have a mediating effect on the relationship between characteristics of (Chinese) head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors and their quality of life (QoL).-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofSupportive Care in Cancer-
dc.subjectChinese-
dc.subjectSupportive care needs-
dc.subjectQuality of life-
dc.subjectPath analysis-
dc.subjectHead and neck cancer survivors-
dc.titleQuality of life in head and neck cancer survivors at 1 year after treatment: the mediating role of unmet supportive care needs-
dc.typeArticle-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00520-014-2278-0-
dc.identifier.pmid24839941-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-84919331407-
dc.identifier.volume22-
dc.identifier.issue11-
dc.identifier.spage2917-
dc.identifier.epage2926-
dc.identifier.eissn1433-7339-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000343053700006-
dc.identifier.issnl0941-4355-

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