US Population Reference Values for Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaires Based on Demographics of Patients with Prostate Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The patient experience with prostate cancer differs throughout the disease continuum, with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and symptoms worsening as the disease progresses. To understand the prostate cancer experience, it is important to understand the experience of same-aged men without prostate cancer as a basis for comparison. This study provides the US population reference values for six patient-reported outcome (PRO) questionnaires.

Methods

A cross-sectional online survey, including several PRO questionnaires, was administered in 2019 to a representative sample of US adults. The male sample (N = 876) was raked by age to have similar characteristics of men in key advanced prostate cancer trials (mean/median age: 67.5/70.0 years), with the majority bei

SUBMITTER: Cella D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9309145 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature