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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2012 Feb 9;20(11):2697–2704. doi: 10.1007/s00520-012-1389-8

Table 3.

Table of mean QOL individual low items in the QOL scale

Item Mean score Standard deviation
Physical well-being
 Fatigue 4.96 2.691
 Appetite changes 3.90 2.925
 Physical strength 4.94 2.357
 Sleep changes 4.49 3.051
Psychological well-being
 Usefulness 4.97 3.052
 In control 4.83 3.086
 Unwanted changes in appearance 4.08 3.783
 Fearful of recurrence 4.61 5.591
Social well-being
 Family distress 2.21 2.281
 Employment interference 4.57 7.480
 Family goals interference 4.64 4.777
 Activities at home interference 1.59 5.271
Spiritual well-being
 Uncertainty 4.98 4.922

Scored from 0 to 10, with higher scores equal to higher QOL