| 1 |
Harrington, McGurk & Llewellyn (2008)
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(1) to determine the extent to which patient treated for HNC experience positive consequences of their illness, (2) to identify factors associated with benefit finding among this patient group |
Cross-sectional postal survey |
Benefit finding scale (BFS), Hospital Anxiety and Distress Scale (HADS), Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), Brief COPE |
Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Education, Employment, Marital status |
Type of treatment, time since last treatment, diagnosis of further illness since treatment, site, type of cancer and stage of cancer |
0–6mths = 1, 6–12mths = 3, 13–24mths = 7, 25–47mths = 20, 48–72mths = 19, 73–121mths = 26 |
| 2 |
Llewellyn et al. (2011)
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(1) to determine the extent to which patient treated for HNC experience positive consequences of their illness, (2) to establish the relationship between BF, other patient-reported outcomes and predictive factors such as coping strategy and level of optimism |
Repeated measures prospective study using self-completion questionnaires |
Benefit finding scale (BFS), Hospital Anxiety and Distress Scale (HADS), Life Orientation Test (LOT-R), Brief COPE, Medical Outcomes Short Form 12 (SF-12), Two-item measure derived from The European Organization for Research and Treatment (EORTC) of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ-C30) |
Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Education, Employment, Marital status |
Type of treatment, site and stage of cancer |
T1 = Between diagnosis and start of treatment, T2 = 6 months after completion of treatment |
| 3 |
Ho et al. (2011)
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Investigate if PTG occurs in oral cancer patients and if hope and optimism shows significant positive correlation with PTG |
Cross-sectional postal survey |
Chinese Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), Hope scale (HS), Life Orientation Test - Revised (LOT-R) |
Age, Gender, Religion, Education level, income |
Time since diagnosis, stage of disease, and treatment type |
Mean time was 3.6yrs (SD 0.34) |
| 4 |
S Harding & T Moss, (2013a, unpublished data) |
Investigate the relationship between BF, demographical, biomedical and HRQoL following the treatment for HNC |
Cross-sectional postal survey |
Silver Lining Questionnaire (SLQ), University of Washington Head and Neck Caner Quality of Life (UoW), Medical Outcomes Short Form 12 (SF-12) |
Age at diagnosis, Age at time of completing questionnaire, Gender, Ethnicity, Index of Multiple Deprivation, Occupation, Family Status |
Tumour site, Stage of disease, Location of tumour, Treatment |
Mean time from completing treatment to completing questionnaires 27.30mths (Range 3–76; SD 21.8) |
| 5 |
S Harding & T Moss, (2013b, unpublished data) |
Investigate the longitudinal relationship between BF, demographical, biomedical and HRQoL following the treatment for HNC |
Repeated measures prospective cross-sectional study using self-completion questionnaires |
Silver Lining Questionnaire (SLQ), University of Washington Head and Neck Caner Quality of Life (UoW), Medical Outcomes Short Form 12 (SF-12) |
Age at diagnosis, Age at time of completing questionnaire, Gender, Ethnicity, Index of Multiple Deprivation, Occupation, Family Status |
Tumour site, Stage of disease, Location of tumour, Treatment |
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