Psychological recovery and well-being of spouses of patients with prostate cancer 5 years after primary treatment in Finland: a follow-up survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective and setting

To study longitudinally cancer-related experiences of spouses of patients with prostate cancer and the predictors of their psychological recovery and quality of life (QOL) by following the participants of our previous survey at primary cancer treatment in a university hospital.

Design

A 5-year longitudinal cohort design.

Participants and procedure

A follow-up questionnaire was mailed to the female spouses/partners who participated in our previous survey (n=104). We quantitatively explored the spouses' prostate cancer-related experiences since the previous survey and measured their current psychological symptom distress and well-being/QOL. Seventy-seven (74%) of the initial participants responded.

Outcomes

The main outcome measures were the

SUBMITTER: Lehto US 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151865 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature