作者: J. Schaafsma , D. Osoba
DOI: 10.1007/BF00435393
关键词: Psychology 、 Prospective cohort study 、 Distress 、 Lung cancer 、 Cognition 、 Cancer 、 Clinical psychology 、 Quality of life 、 Ordered logit 、 Cross-validation
摘要: A cross-validation of the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) and quality life (QOL) as measured by item 30 questionnaire developed European Organization for Research Treatment Cancer Study Group (EORTC QLQ-C30) was conducted using ordered logit analysis prospective data from a continuous sample 139 lung cancer patients. The QOL is found to be much broader concept than KPS, since it likely captures not only physical functioning but also in non-physical dimensions social, emotional, possibly cognitive well-being well level distress pain, breathing fatigue. These results suggest that palliative treatment advanced terminally ill should guided broad goes beyond one based on functioning.