Qualitative
Men treated for prostate cancer did not consider urinary, bowel, or sexual dysfunction as problems of health
Korfage IJ, Hak T, de Koning HJ, et al. Patients’ perceptions of the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment—a qualitative interview study. Soc Sci Med 2006;63:911–9.[CrossRef][Medline]
Q How do men who have been treated for prostate cancer perceive the side effects of urinary, bowel, and sexual dysfunction?
Key Words: prostatic neoplasms • attitude to health • quality of life
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Qualitative study.
University Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
33 men 60–74 years of age who had been treated for prostate cancer and had experienced urinary, bowel, or sexual dysfunctions after, but not before, treatment. All men were recruited from a cohort of prostate cancer patients who had completed self report questionnaires before treatment and at 6 month, 12 month, and 5 year follow up. Questionnaires included disease specific and generic quality of life (QOL) measures. Responses indicated both high levels of dysfunction and high generic scores.
Face-to-face semistructured interviews were conducted at a mean of 5–6 years after prostate cancer treatment. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. To explore the discrepancy between the presence of urinary, bowel, or sexual dysfunction and high QOL scores, patients were randomly allocated to 2 interview samples: sample A interviews aimed to determine whether discrepancies could be explained by response shift (ie, participants’ adaptation to
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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