Recall of pretreatment symptoms among men treated with radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Figures & data

Table I.  Differences between actual baseline and recalled symptoms and QOL.

	QOL/symptoms scores
	Baseline	SD°	Recall	SD°	Difference	P	Correlation	P
PCSS
Urinary symptoms	1.81	1.49	2.19	1.81	−0.39	0.016	0.677	<0.001
Urinary bother	1.19	1.40	2.03	2.10	−0.83	<0.001	0.614	<0.001
Bowel symptoms	0.55	0.86	0.88	1.26	−0.33	0.007	0.558	<0.001
Bowel bother	0.46	0.98	0.98	1.73	−0.52	0.002	0.472	<0.001
Sexual function	4.98	3.31	3.65	2.85	1.33	0.004	0.233	0.044
Sexual bother	4.38	4.00	3.53	3.77	0.85	0.032	0.366	0.001
Life situation	1.96	1.98	3.29	2.59	−1.33	<0.001	0.500	<0.001
Limitation in daily life	1.37	2.21	2.12	2.56	−0.75	0.017	0.525	<0.001
QLQ-C30
Emotional function	86.17	17.82	84.33	19.23	1.84	0.663	0.536	<0.001
Physical function	97.59	5.00	97.92	4.53	−0.33	0.532	0.713	<0.001
Social function	84.55	23.09	84.52	20.00	0.03	0.651	0.236	0.034
Cognitive function	90.44	16.15	87.84	17.51	2.60	0.238	0.600	<0.001
Role function	83.33	28.38	85.69	24.69	−2.36	0.659	0.336	0.002
Global health status/QOL scale	78.76	17.38	73.01	20.72	5.75	0.003	0.551	<0.001

Scales are scored from 0-10, with higher scores representing more symptoms, worse function.

Scales are scored from 0-100, with higher scores representing better function.

°SD= Standard deviation.

Table II.  Internal Consistency of the PCSS and QLQ-C30 questionnaires.

	Internal Consistency
	Baseline (n = 85)	Recall (n = 85)
PCSS
Urinary symptom	0.84	0.90
Urinary bother	0.57	0.74
Intestinal symptom	0.71	0.78
Intestinal bother	0.57	0.86
Sexual function	0.83	0.74
QLQ-C30
Emotional function	0.90	0.90
Physical function	0.57	0.52
Social function	0.81	0.70
Cognitive function	0.69	0.69
Role function	0.88	0.94
Global health status/QOL scale	0.92	0.94

Figure 1. Linear regression showing the mean difference in sexual function between baseline and recall, and the correlation with mean sexual function at baseline.

Figure 2. Linear regression showing the mean difference in sexual bother between baseline and recall, and the correlation with mean sexual bother at baseline.