Psychosocial outcomes and health-related quality of life in adult childhood cancer survivors: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study.

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Lonnie K Zeltzer,Qian Lu,Wendy Leisenring,Jennie C I Tsao,Christopher Recklitis,Gregory Armstrong,Ann C Mertens,Leslie L Robison,Kirsten K Ness,

PURPOSE: Psychological outcomes, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and life satisfaction are compared between 7,147 adult childhood cancer survivors and 388 siblings from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, examining demographic and diagnosis/treatment outcome predictors. METHODS: Psychological distress, HRQOL, and life satisfaction were measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory-18, the Medical Outcomes Survey Short Form-36, and Cantril Ladder of Life, respectively. A self-report questionnaire provided demographic/health information and medical record abstraction provided cancer/treatment data. Siblings' and survivors' scores were compared using generalized linear mixed models, and predictor effects of demographic and cancer/treatment variables were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS: Although survivors report greater symptoms of global distress (mean, 49.17; SE, 0.12) than do siblings (mean, 46.64; SE, 0.51), scores remain below population norms, indicating that survivors and siblings remain psychologically healthy. Survivors scored worse than siblings on overall physical (51.30 +/- 0.10 versus 54.98 +/- 0.44; P < 0.001) but not emotional aspects of HRQOL, but effect sizes were small, other than in vitality. Most survivors reported present (mean, 7.3; SD, 0.02) and predicted future (mean, 8.6; SD, 0.02) life satisfaction. Risk factors for psychological distress and poor HRQOL were female gender, lower educational attainment, unmarried status, annual household income <$20,000, unemployment, lack of medical insurance, having a major medical condition, and treatment with cranial radiation. CONCLUSION: Compared with population norms, childhood cancer survivors and siblings report positive psychological health, good HRQOL, and life satisfaction. The findings identify targeted subgroups of survivors for intervention. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008;17(2):435-46).

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LK Zeltzer,Q Lu,W Leisenring,JC Tsao,C Recklitis,G Armstrong,AC Mertens,LL Robison,KK Ness,

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Journal: Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a p

VOLUME: 17

Page Numbers: 435-46

Journal Abbreviation: Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers P

ISSN: 1055-9965

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YEAR: 2008

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