Improvement of quality of life and psychological distress after inpatient cancer rehabilitation

• DOI: 10.1007/s00508-017-1266-z
• Publication Date: 2017-09-15T09:00:42Z
• Authors: David Riedl; Johannes M. Giesi...; Lisa M. Wintner; Fanny L. Loth; Gerhard Rumpold; Richard Greil; Alain Nickels; Thomas Licht; Bernhard Holzner
• Keywords: Psychological Distress

With the growing number of cancer survivors worldwide need for high quality rehabilitation after primary treatment is steadily increasing. The aim present study was to investigate change psychological distress and health-related life (HRQOL) during multidisciplinary inpatient in a large sample suffering from different entities. We analyzed data routine HRQOL monitoring at center. Cancer completed European Organization Research Treatment (EORTC) Quality Life Questionnaire Core-30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) before treatment. Changes patients' functioning symptoms were using repeated measures analysis variance (ANOVA) effect sizes (Cohens' d). Patients' pretreatment posttreatment scores compared reference German general population. A total 939 patients (mean age 58.6 years, SD 11.9 years; 59.9% women) who attended January 2014 September 2015 included analysis. found clinically meaningful improvement almost all domains EORTC QLQ-C30 as well anxiety depression (HADS). largest improvements subscales emotional (d = 0.78), fatigue 0.65), social 0.56). HRQOL, an oncological Our results warrant further prospective controlled studies evaluate long-term effectiveness rehabilitation.