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- Title
Comprehensive Evaluation of Quality of Life in Penile Cancer Patients following Surgical Treatment.
- Authors
Jovanović, Darko; Aćimović, Miodrag; Pejčić, Tomislav; Milojević, Bogomir; Čegar, Bojan; Zeković, Milica; Lisičić, Nikola; Džamić, Zoran; Marić, Gorica
- Abstract
Background: Penile cancer (PC) is a highly aggressive disease, with a significant tendency for lymphatic spreading and subsequent development of distant metastases. The mutilating nature of PC surgical treatment has profound implications on the patient's body integrity and self-image, sexual life and intimacy, voiding and mental health. The aim of our study was to comprehensively evaluate PC patients' post-treatment quality of life (QoL), sexual activity, self-esteem, fatigue and fear of disease recurrence. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Clinic of Urology, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, and included 31 PC patients. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. (3) Results: The average score on the Global health status scale was 67.2 out of 100 (ranging from 16.7 to 100), and the SD was 22.5. Hierarchical linear regression analysis showed that demographic characteristics, Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) anxiety and depression scores, total Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory, Fear of cancer recurrence and Rosenberg scores and erectile function score explained a total of 78.2% of the variance in the global health status/QoL scale of PC patients. (4) Conclusions: Efforts should be made not only to increase the survival of PC patients after surgical treatment but also to enable the best possible level of QoL in the post-operative period.
- Subjects
SERBIA; WELL-being; STATISTICS; PENILE tumors; HUMAN sexuality; SELF-perception; CROSS-sectional method; FEAR; REGRESSION analysis; TREATMENT effectiveness; CANCER patients; DISEASE relapse; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); QUALITY of life; SEX customs; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; FATIGUE (Physiology); DATA analysis; DATA analysis software; SELF-esteem testing; EVALUATION
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2023, Vol 11, Issue 23, p3091
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare11233091