ArticleAnnals of surgical oncology2021
Higher Dispositional Optimism Predicts Better Health-Related Quality of Life After Esophageal Cancer Surgery: A Nationwide Population-Based Longitudinal Study.
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- Translating evidence in a priority setting partnership: knowledge gaps between healthcare providers and oesophageal cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Dispositional optimism and all-cause mortality after esophageal cancer surgery: a nationwide population-based cohort study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess whether higher dispositional optimism could predict better health-related quality of life (HRQL) after esophageal cancer surgery.
methodsThis Swedish nationwide longitudinal study included 192 patients who underwent esophagectomy for cancer. The exposure was dispositional optimism measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) at 1 year post-surgery. Patients were categorized into four subgroups (very low, moderately low, moderately high, and very high dispositional optimism) based on the quartile of the LOT-R sum score. The outcome was HRQL assessed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (QLQ-C30) and Quality of Life Questionnaire-Esophago-Gastric module 25 (QLQ-OG25) at 1, 1.5, and 2 years post-surgery. Linear mixed-effects models, adjusted for potential confounders, were used to examine the mean score difference (MSD) with 95% confidence interval of HRQL among the four patient subgroups.
resultsPatients with very high dispositional optimism reported clinically relevantly better global quality of life, emotional function, and social function (MSD range 10-16) and less severe symptoms in pain, dyspnea, diarrhea, eating difficulty, anxiety, dry mouth, trouble with taste, worry about weight loss, and self-doubt about body image (MSD range - 9 to - 22) than patients with lower dispositional optimism. Patients with moderately high dispositional optimism reported clinically and statistically significantly better global quality of life (MSD 10) and less severe diarrhea (MSD - 9) than patients with lower dispositional optimism. Adjusted MSDs were constant over the three time points in all aspects except for eating difficulty.
conclusionsMeasuring dispositional optimism could help identify patients at higher risk of poor HRQL recovery after esophageal cancer surgery.
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