caa a22 4500 475846699 CHVBK 20180406123916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008937724943 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008937724943 A follow-up study of the quality of life in cancer patients with different prognoses [Elektronische Daten] [Gerd Ringdal, Kristen Ringdal] The present study examines differences in quality of life between two points in time in a heterogeneous sample of cancer patients with different prognoses. The original sample comprised 253 patients, while the follow-up data obtained 3-4 years later included 75 patients, that is, 92% of the survivors. All the patients completed a questionnaire including the EORTC QLQ-C30. The research questions focus on overall changes in quality of life, and whether patients with a good prognosis would show less negative changes in quality of life than patients with a poor prognosis. The overall observed changes in quality of life were surprisingly small over a 3-4 year period. This study shows that prognoses do predict changes in social functioning and in some physical aspects of quality of life over a 3-4 year period after the assessment of prognoses by physicians. Prognoses did not, however, predict changes in psychological aspects of quality of life. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Cancer patients nationallicence EORTC QLQ-C30 nationallicence Longitudinal assessments nationallicence Prognosis groups nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence Ringdal Gerd Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway aut Ringdal Kristen Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/1(2000-02-01), 65-73 0962-9343 9:1<65 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008937724943 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008937724943 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ringdal Gerd Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ringdal Kristen Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/1(2000-02-01), 65-73 0962-9343 9:1<65 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer