Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Moroccan Version of the EORTC QLQ-CR29 in Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Quality of Life of Colorectal Cancer Patients and Its Association With Anxiety and Depression: Cross-Sectional Study at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Low Middle Income Country

“…Among functional scales of CR29, sexual interest (female > male) was the most problematic in our population, similar to the previously published studies (14,16,28,29). Previous studies have also highlighted other signi cant problems, for example, body image issues was a bigger concern than sexual interest in males (18) and sexual interest in males was more effected than females (30).…”

“…Care for stoma has remained a major concern, not only for the patients but also for care givers. Unlike us, stoma care issues is not one of the major issues for patients in the other countries (14,16,18,28,30,31). Lack of support group discussion, non-availability of supreme quality appliances and lack of adequate counselling / understanding of patients and caregiver about stoma care may be some of the common reasons in our population and need further validation.…”

External validation of the Moroccan Arabic version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer colorectal (CR29) module: Monocentric study

“…This study has some limitations, one of which is the limited sample size of patients. However, the minimum sample size was set at one hundred and fifty patients according to EORTC organization and other EORTC QLQ-CR29 validations were performed on a smaller population such as El Alami’s research[ 18 ]. Self-administration was not possible due to the high level of illiteracy in our context; consequently, patients received the help of one of the investigators who was in charge of reading the questions and different options for the answer.…”

“…We followed the STROBE directive guidelines write the manuscripts[ 18 ]. The participants completed a general information section including sociodemographic and clinical data, alongside both the Moroccan Arabic module of EORTC QLQ-CR29[ 18 ], and the validated Moroccan Arabic version of the QLQ-C30 (version 3.0)[ 19 ].…”