Head and neck cancer: To what extent can psychological factors explain differences between health-related quality of life and individual quality of life?

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Date: Oct. 2006
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Document Type: Report
Length: 116 words

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To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2005.06.033 Byline: C.D. Llewellyn (a), M. McGurk (b), J. Weinman (a) Keywords: Head and neck; Cancer; Quality-of-life; Psychology; Self-regulation Abstract: To assess the extent to which individualised quality of life (QoL) was related to standardised health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), and to assess how much of the variation in each of these measures could be explained by psychological variables. Author Affiliation: (a) Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry (Guy's Campus), King's College London, 5th Floor Thomas-Guy House, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK (b) Department of Oral Surgery, Guy's Hospital NHS Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK Article History: Accepted 24 June 2005

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Gale Document Number: GALE|A194544181