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- Title
Interpretation of the Skin Cancer Quality of Life Score: A Validated Quality of Life Questionnaire for Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer.
- Authors
Vinding, Gabrielle R.; Esmann, Solveig; Olesen, anne B.; Hansen, Lone B.; Christensen, Karl B.; Jemec, Gregor B.E.
- Abstract
Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments are used increasingly. In order to assign clinical meaning to HRQoL scores, the interpretation of instruments is essential but lagging in dermatology. Objective: To establish a clinical interpretation of the Skin Cancer Quality of Life questionnaire (SCQoL), a newly validated HRQoL instrument for patients with non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), using an anchor-based method, and to test the responsiveness. Methods: Receiver-operating characteristic analysis was used to propose clinically meaningful cut-off scores for SCQoL including 101 patients with NMSC. Results: The following bands were established: score 0-3 corresponds to no impairment, 4-6 corresponds to mild impairment, 7-10 to moderate impairment and 11-27 to severe impairment of HRQoL. Testing the responsiveness shows a moderate effect size and significantly lower scores only for the domain emotion and the global item. Conclusion: Using proposed clinical cut-off scores for SCQoL may help clinicians in their decision-making, help monitoring clinical improvement and classify patients just as e.g. the Dermatology Life Quality Index can. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Dermatology (10188665), 2014, Vol 229, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1018-8665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000362807