Quality of Life Questionnaires
Quality of life following head and neck cancer treatment is very important to us and we are constantly researching (often by means of questionnaires) to refine the treatment we provide in different circumstances to improve the quality of life of our patients.
University of Washington HRQOL Questionnaire
The University of Washington HRQOL Questionnaire is one of the most often used questionnaires and has been used extensively in our unit. It has undergone extensive research and development.
Version 4 of the University of Washington HRQOL Questionnaire includes mood and anxiety domains.
Click here for UW-QOLv4 questionnaires translated into other languages>
Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire
The Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire has been developed and piloted in this unit and is the subject of ongoing research into the benefits of oral rehabilitation for patients following treatment for oral cancer.
Pace-Balzan A , Cawood JI, Howell R, Lowe D, Rogers SN. The Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire: a pilot study. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 2004 31(6): 609-617.
Pace-Balzan A, Cawood JI, Howell R, Butterworth CW, Lowe D, Rogers SN The further development and validation of the Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire: A cross-sectional survey of patients attending for oral rehabilitation and general dental practice. International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. 35(1):72-8, 2006 Jan. (identified in the journal as 'leading research paper in head and neck oncology')
Pace-Balzan A, Butterworth CJ, Dawson LJ, Lowe D, Rogers SN. A Survey of Consultants and Specialists in Restorative Dentistry on their use of Health-Related Quality of Life questionnaires Eur. J. Prosthodont. Rest. Dent., 2007;15:122-126
Pace-Balzan A, Butterworth CJ, Dawson LJ, Lowe D, Rogers SN Patients subjective evaluation using the Liverpool Oral Rehabilation Questionnaire in a prosthetics out-patient clinics. Journal of Prosthetics (in-press)
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Liverpool PEG Questionnaire
The Liverpool PEG Questionnaire has been piloted in the Unit to look at patient's issues with PEG feeding.
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Rogers SN, Thomson R, O'Toole P, Lowe D. Patients experience with long-term percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding following primary surgery for oral and oropharyngeal cancer. Oral Oncology 2007 43: 499-507.
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) questionnaire for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
This questionnaire is version 2 which encompasses changes made in the light of the initial study in 2010
Download this questionnaire here>
Linked to this questionnaire is the paper by Professor Rogers et al from 2010: 'Development of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a brief head and neck cancer patient questionnaire'. Click here for PDF
Quality of Life data from the Regional Head & Neck Unit
Please try our on-line searchable Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL)database. We have compiled over 800 individual questionnaires completed by our patients over the last 10 years to allow users to perform a customisable search to help predict what their quality of life might be like after surgery plus/minus radiotherapy for a number of tumour sites and a number of different operations.
Click here to search our QOL data>
Publications
The Merseyside Regional unit has published many academic papers on all aspects of head and neck cancer treatment and its effects.
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