ArticleJournal of cancer survivorship : research and practice2016
Quality of working life of cancer survivors: development of a cancer-specific questionnaire.
Article in Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- A randomised feasibility trial of an employer-based intervention for enhancing successful return to work of cancer survivors (MiLES intervention).BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Two-Year Follow-Up of a Multi-centre Randomized Controlled Trial to Study Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Work Support Intervention for Cancer Patients.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Relationship between perceived depression, suicidal ideation, and return to work among cancer survivors in South Korea: A national survey analysis.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- The Cancer and Work Scale (CAWSE): Assessing Return to Work Likelihood and Employment Sustainability After Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- Working after cancer: psychological flexibility and the quality of working life.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2024Article
- Health Behaviors of Cancer Survivors According to the Employment Status and Occupation: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Practice-Based Evidence to Support Return to Work in Cancer Patients.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Article
- Work ability and quality of working life in atopic dermatitis patients treated with dupilumab.The Journal of dermatology · 2021Observational
- Article
- Living with a chronic disease: A quantitative study of the views of patients with a chronic disease on the change in their life situation.SAGE open medicine · 2020Article
- What Employer Actions Are Considered Most Important for the Return to Work of Employees with Cancer? A Delphi Study Among Employees and Employers.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Article
- Quality of Working Life of cancer survivors: associations with health- and work-related variables.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2017Article
- The Quality of Working Life Questionnaire for Cancer Survivors (QWLQ-CS): a Pre-test Study.BMC health services research · 2016Observational
- Returning to work: The cancer survivor's transformational journey of adjustment and coping.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeThe aim of this study was to generate, and select quality of working life issues for the development of an initial version of the Quality of Working Life Questionnaire for Cancer Survivors (QWLQ-CS).
methodsQuality of working life issues were generated through focus groups with cancer survivors and oncological occupational physicians, and interviews with employers, supervisors, and organization officers. A selection of these quality of working life issues was made based on relevance and importance by conducting an online questionnaire among the cancer survivors and oncological occupational physicians. Researchers formulated the issues into items for the QWLQ-CS.
resultsA total of 24 cancer survivors, six oncological occupational physicians and 11 employers, supervisors, and organization officers participated. The 222 quality of working life issues identified through the focus groups, interviews, and literature were converted into an online questionnaire. Cancer survivors (N = 20) found 44 issues not relevant or important with respect to their quality of working life. The researchers reviewed the remaining 178 issues and formulated them into 102 items classified by five categories: work perception, job characteristics, the social structure and environment, organizational characteristics, and the effect of the disease and treatment.
conclusionsThe initial version of the QWLQ-CS exists out of 102 items which cover the experiences and perceptions of cancer survivors in the work environment. All items were indicated by working cancer survivors as relevant and important. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: This initial version of the QWLQ-CS may increase awareness of the potential problems or emotional difficulties working cancer survivors face during the work continuation process.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.