Objective
Many Quality of Life (QoL) instruments have questionable validity since they capture health status rather than QoL as perceived by the individual. For most QoL instruments experts have generated items and equal weightings of different QoL domains are assum ed. This is contradicted by research showing QoL as highly individual. An alternative approach is to use Individualised Quality of Life (IQoL) instruments that capture QoL as defined by the individual.This proposal focuses on IQoL in cancer and on the use of IQoL to optimise clinical care. An acknowledgement of the unique nature of QoL for the individual is arguably nowhere more important than in life-challenging situations such as serious illness. Monitoring cancer patients with IQoL instruments in clinica l practice might be a way to individualise care, enhance patient-physician communication with regard to psychosocial concerns and improve patient outcomes, primarily QoL. The overall aims are to:-evaluate the efficacy of IQoL instruments as a means of indi vidualising cancer care-identify the most appropriate instrument for this purpose. A cancer-specific instrument (EORTC-QLQ-C30) and an individualised instrument (Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life ¿ Direct Weighting (SEIQoL-DW)) will be compared-explore the experiences of, and attitudes to, QoL assessments in clinical practice among patients and health care personnel -identify the minimal clinically important differences (MIDs) for EORTC-QLQ-C30 and SEIQoL-DWThis project will inform decis ion makers and health care personnel about the use of QoL instruments for care planning and individualisation of treatment. Many interventions fail to be implemented in clinical practice, even when proven effective. Results from this study will be used to optimise interventions and to identify a mode of integrating QoL assessments in clinical practice that ensures maximum feasibility and usefulness among health care personnel and patients.
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-11
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UPPSALA
Sweden
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