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Emotional distress impacts quality of life evaluation: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Emotional distress impacts quality of life evaluation: a report from the Childhood Cancer... J Cancer Surviv (2017) 11:309–319 DOI 10.1007/s11764-016-0589-5 Emotional distress impacts quality of life evaluation: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study 1 1,2 1 3 I-Chan Huang & Tara M. Brinkman & Gregory T. Armstrong & Wendy Leisenring & 1 1,2 Leslie L. Robison & Kevin R. Krull Received: 7 July 2016 /Accepted: 16 December 2016 /Published online: 9 January 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 Abstract perceptions, poorer HRQOL was explained by the mediating role Purpose We compared health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of emotional distress (ps < 0.05). between adult survivors of childhood cancer and siblings by Conclusions Differences in HRQOL between survivors and investigating the mediating role of emotional distress on siblings appear due, in part, to the mediating effect of emo- HRQOL assessment, and examining the extent to which emo- tional distress through which cancer experience influences the tional distress affected the item responses of HRQOL measures responses to HRQOL measures. Implications of cancer survivors Interventions to treat emo- given the same underlying HRQOL (i.e., measurement non- invariance). tional distress may improve cancer survivors’ HRQOL. Methods Cancer survivors (7103) and siblings (390) enrolled in . . Childhood Cancer Survivor Study who completed the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
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Medicine & Public Health; Public Health; Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health Informatics; Quality of Life Research; Primary Care Medicine
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1932-2259
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1932-2267
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10.1007/s11764-016-0589-5
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28070769
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J Cancer Surviv (2017) 11:309–319 DOI 10.1007/s11764-016-0589-5 Emotional distress impacts quality of life evaluation: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study 1 1,2 1 3 I-Chan Huang & Tara M. Brinkman & Gregory T. Armstrong & Wendy Leisenring & 1 1,2 Leslie L. Robison & Kevin R. Krull Received: 7 July 2016 /Accepted: 16 December 2016 /Published online: 9 January 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 Abstract perceptions, poorer HRQOL was explained by the mediating role Purpose We compared health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of emotional distress (ps < 0.05). between adult survivors of childhood cancer and siblings by Conclusions Differences in HRQOL between survivors and investigating the mediating role of emotional distress on siblings appear due, in part, to the mediating effect of emo- HRQOL assessment, and examining the extent to which emo- tional distress through which cancer experience influences the tional distress affected the item responses of HRQOL measures responses to HRQOL measures. Implications of cancer survivors Interventions to treat emo- given the same underlying HRQOL (i.e., measurement non- invariance). tional distress may improve cancer survivors’ HRQOL. Methods Cancer survivors (7103) and siblings (390) enrolled in . . Childhood Cancer Survivor Study who completed the

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