Life satisfaction and health in cancer patients, orthopedic patients and healthy individuals.

Kreitler, S.; Chaitchik, Samario; Rapoport, Yoram; Kreitler, Hans; Algor, R

doi:10.1097/01893697-199412030-00035

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“…Kreitler et al (1993), found no association between optimism and self-rated health in sample of cancer patients, although this was a cross-sectional study with a quite different indicator of optimism (one item) which is different to our results where optimism has a significant contribution to the physical component score too.…”

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The Effect of Dispositional Optimism in HRQOL in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions in Greece

Tsakogia¹,

Lyrakos

Damigos

et al. 2010

Applied Research Quality Life

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The purpose of this investigation was to study the influence of optimism in the quality of life of patients with musculoskeletal problems that were referred to Amfilohia Rehabilitation Center, because of chronic pain and kinetic difficulties. The sample consisted of 96 patients. The questionnaires that were used are the short form health questionnaire (12 questions; SF12), the life orientation test-revised (LOT-R) and a VAS scale for pain measurement. According to the regression analysis performed, dispositional optimism is an independent factor affecting both the physical (β=.249, p<.005) and mental composite score (β=.414, p<.0001) in patients with musculoskeletal problems, even after controlling for the effect of pain intensity.Keywords Pain . Musculoskeletal disorders . Health related quality of life .

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confidence: 83%

The Effect of Dispositional Optimism in HRQOL in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions in Greece

Tsakogia¹,

Lyrakos

Damigos

et al. 2010

Applied Research Quality Life

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“…This measurement reflected the bipolar optimism-pessimism dimension -one unidimensional factorcorresponding to that defined by Scheier and Carver (see Lai et al [29]). The validity of single item measure for optimism is closely comparable to that of using multiple item measures, such as with the Life Orientation Test (LOT); 'a single item of optimism accounted for an average of 29% of the variance in a measure of subjective well-being, about three quarters of that accounted by the full LOT' [8,17,30]. The adoption of a general single-item measure of a global expression of optimism is not uncommon.…”

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“…The adoption of a general single-item measure of a global expression of optimism is not uncommon. Research showed that single-item measures of optimism correlated positively (r = 0.55) with longer (40 items) optimism scales [31] and received good test-retest reliability in a sample of healthy individuals [30]. They also reduce assessment load for sick patients [32].…”

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Quality of life and pain in Chinese lung cancer patients: Is optimism a moderator or mediator?

Wong

Fielding

2006

Qual Life Res

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Optimism qualifies as a mediator between pain and QoL suggesting that pessimistic lung cancer patients are likely to experience greater QoL decrements in response to pain in the early post-diagnostic period. Effective pain control may be enhanced by inclusion of interventions that facilitate optimistic perspectives in patients. This study lends further support to the view that lung cancer patients' psychological needs are important in both pain control and QoL.

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“…Additionally, some early studies have shown that not all of our assumptions regarding QOL are correct. For example, Kreitler et al 4 showed that life satisfaction, which is related to QOL, is no different in patients with HN cancer than in orthopedic patients or healthy subjects.…”

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Factors Related to Quality of Life and Functional Status in 50 Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

et al. 1996

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Quality of life (QOL) and functional status (FS) have become important outcome measures in cancer therapy. Valid and reliable instruments recently have been developed for examining QOL and FS in patients with head and neck (HN) cancer. The present study evaluated the relationships of QOL and FS to physical and psychological variables assumed to affect QOL and FS. Fifty patients were evaluated up to 6 years after HN cancer surgery using one general QOL instrument and three HN-specific instruments. Analysis of variance showed physical variables such as tumor site to be related to HN-specific scores, while psychosocial variables such as marital status were related to general QOL scores (P < or = .05). Several relationships were seen between physical or psychosocial variables and FS or QOL measures; however the relationships were not as strong or direct as expected.

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Life satisfaction and health in cancer patients, orthopedic patients and healthy individuals.

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The Effect of Dispositional Optimism in HRQOL in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions in Greece

The Effect of Dispositional Optimism in HRQOL in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions in Greece

Quality of life and pain in Chinese lung cancer patients: Is optimism a moderator or mediator?

Factors Related to Quality of Life and Functional Status in 50 Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

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