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Journal Article
Intrusive thoughts and quality of life among men with prostate cancer before and three months after surgery
2013
Overview
Background
Sudden, unwelcome and repetitive thoughts about a traumatic event – intrusive thoughts – could relate to how men assess their quality of life after prostate-cancer diagnosis. We aimed to study the prevalence of intrusive thoughts about prostate cancer and their association with quality-of-life outcomes before and after radical prostatectomy.
Methods
During the first year of the LAPPRO-trial, 971 men scheduled for radical prostatectomy were prospectively included from 14 urological centers in Sweden. Of those, 833 men responded to two consecutive study-specific questionnaires before and three months after surgery (participation rate 86%). The association of intrusive thoughts with three quality-of-life outcomes, i.e. self-assessed quality of life, depressive mood and waking up with anxiety was estimated by prevalence ratios that were calculated, together with a 95% confidence interval, at the same time-point as well as over time.
Fisher’s exact
-test was used to analyze differences between respondents and non-respondents.
Wilcoxon signed-ranks
and
Cochran-Armitage trend
tests were used for analysis of change over time. To validate new questions on intrusive thoughts, written answers to open-ended questions were read and analyzed by qualitative content analysis.
Results
Before surgery, 603 men (73%) reported negative intrusive thoughts about their cancer at some time in the past month and 593 men (59%) reported such thoughts three months after surgery. Comparing those reporting intrusive thoughts at least weekly or once a week before surgery with those who did not, the prevalence ratio (95% confidence interval), three months after surgery, for waking up in the middle of the night with anxiety was 3.9 (2.7 to 5.5), for depressed mood 1.8 (1.6 to 2.1) and for impaired self-assessed quality of life 1.3 (1.2 to 1.5).
Conclusion
The prevalence of negative intrusive thoughts about prostate cancer at the time of surgery associates with studied quality-of-life outcomes three months later.
Trial registration
Current Controlled Trials,
ISRCTN06393679
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Aged
/ Analysis
/ Anxiety
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Men
/ Prostatic Neoplasms - psychology
/ Prostatic Neoplasms - surgery
/ Quality of Life - psychology
/ Studies
/ Surveys
/ Sweden
