TY - JOUR
T1 - Life satisfaction of patients with penile cancer
AU - Jakobsen, Jakob Kristian
AU - Sørensen, Christian Møbjerg
AU - Krarup, Kim Predbjørn
AU - Jensen, Jørgen Bjerggaard
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - INTRODUCTION: In penile cancer, both disease and treatment may be mutilating. We examined life satisfaction in three separate groups; at penile cancer diagnosis and one and two years later.METHODS: From 1 January 2013 to 31 December2015, Danish penile cancer patients completed the Life-Satisfaction Questionnaire-11 (LISAT-11) at diagnosis and after one year and after two years. Responders scored 11 domains of life on a six-point scale. We analysed the scores and compared scores with those of a Swedish control cohort from the literature with patients in the same age group.RESULTS: A total of 157 individual penile cancer patients completed the LISAT-11 checklist at one point in the trajectory and were considered for this study. We observed trends towards less life satisfaction in the years after diagnosis and with increasingly mutilating surgical treatment. The differences were not statistically significant. A difference was observed between the proportion of responders scoring "satisfied" on activities of daily living between penile cancer patients and a healthy control cohort, with a higher score being recorded for the healthy controls. No other LISAT-11 domains were scored significantly different between penile cancer patients and controls.CONCLUSIONS: Danish responders with penile cancer are less satisfied than a Swedish control cohort within the self-care domain.FUNDING: none.TRIAL REGISTRATION: not relevant.
AB - INTRODUCTION: In penile cancer, both disease and treatment may be mutilating. We examined life satisfaction in three separate groups; at penile cancer diagnosis and one and two years later.METHODS: From 1 January 2013 to 31 December2015, Danish penile cancer patients completed the Life-Satisfaction Questionnaire-11 (LISAT-11) at diagnosis and after one year and after two years. Responders scored 11 domains of life on a six-point scale. We analysed the scores and compared scores with those of a Swedish control cohort from the literature with patients in the same age group.RESULTS: A total of 157 individual penile cancer patients completed the LISAT-11 checklist at one point in the trajectory and were considered for this study. We observed trends towards less life satisfaction in the years after diagnosis and with increasingly mutilating surgical treatment. The differences were not statistically significant. A difference was observed between the proportion of responders scoring "satisfied" on activities of daily living between penile cancer patients and a healthy control cohort, with a higher score being recorded for the healthy controls. No other LISAT-11 domains were scored significantly different between penile cancer patients and controls.CONCLUSIONS: Danish responders with penile cancer are less satisfied than a Swedish control cohort within the self-care domain.FUNDING: none.TRIAL REGISTRATION: not relevant.
KW - Activities of Daily Living
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Patient Satisfaction
KW - Penile Neoplasms/therapy
KW - Personal Satisfaction
KW - Quality of Life
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M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34913430
SN - 2245-1919
VL - 69
JO - Danish Medical Journal
JF - Danish Medical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - A05210397
ER -