Table 6.
Perioperative HNCI HRQOL scores by QOL domain.
| Time | HNCI HRQOL Domain | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speech function | Speech attitude | Eating function | Eating attitude | Aesthetic attitude | Social function | Social attitude | Overall function | Overall attitude | Overall QOL | |
| Baseline | 89.5 (16.6) | 84.0 (18.4) | 86.3 (17.5) | 85.5 (19.2) | 90.1 (20.4) | 85.1 (22.7) | 86.9 (13.7) | 87.0 (16.1) | 86.9 (13.7) | 76.3 (21.7) |
| 3 wks | 81.7 (20.5) | 80.3 (21.5) | 64.4 (21.7) | 75.5 (20.1) | 81.2 (25.5) | 60.4 (21.5) | 80.2 (18.9) | 69.8 (18.3) | 79.4 (16.2) | 71.1 (20.5) |
| 3 mos | 72.0 (26.6) | 72.9 (26.0) | 58.1 (23.9) | 50.3 (24.1) | 83.9 (22.5) | 61.2 (29.8) | 76.0 (26.6) | 65.9 (19.3) | 70.6 (18.8) | 61.2 (27.0) |
| 6 mos | 78.4 (20.6) | 79.0 (20.9) | 57.8 (24.8) | 49.8 (23.3) | 83.1 (22.6) | 72.0 (27.8) | 80.2 (20.3) | 67.5 (20.3) | 73.5 (18.0) | 66.0 (25.8) |
| 12 mos | 80.3 (20.5) | 81.4 (21.8) | 58.5 (27.5) | 57.9 (30.1) | 84.2 (24.2) | 78.7 (27.7) | 84.2 (21.4) | 70.5 (21.7) | 78.0 (19.4) | 76.8 (20.5) |
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| 12 mos – baseline | −9.2 | −2.6 | −27.8 | −27.6 | −7.0 | −6.4 | −2.7 | −19.5 | −8.9 | +0.5 |
| p-value | 0.002a | 0.77 | <0.001 a | <0.001 a | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.37 | <0.001 a | 0.01 a | 0.98 |
Abbreviations: HNCI, Head and Neck Cancer Inventory; HRQOL, Health Related Quality of Life; QOL, Quality of Life; wks, weeks; mos, months.
Data are given as: mean (standard deviation). p-Values demonstrate a comparison between baseline and 12-months post-TORS values.
a
Denotes statistical significance