Health Qual Life Out
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Health Qual Life Out · Mar 2013
Comparative StudyHealth-related quality of life and life satisfaction in colorectal cancer survivors: trajectories of adjustment.
This longitudinal study describes the five year trajectories of health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and life satisfaction in long term colorectal cancer survivors. ⋯ Although HR-QOL and subjective cognitive QOL share similar antecedents their trajectory patterns suggested they are distinct adjustment outcomes; with life satisfaction emerging as temporally stable phenomenon. Unique patterns of risk support suggest the need to account for heterogeneity in adjustment in longitudinal QOL studies with cancer survivors.