Screening for levels of social difficulties and unemployment in head and neck cancer patients by University of Washington Quality of Life Questionnaire (UW-QOL): Current status and cut-off point establishment
The study showed that social difficulties are a concern for HNC survivors. Importantly, the study provides strong evidence to support that UW-QOL can be used to concurrently assess for QOL and the main social difficulties through the cut-off points in UWQOL.
Authors
- Min-Ru Chen
- Yun‐Hsiang Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7200-7373)
- Yuanyuan Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6133-9583)
- Pei‐Jen Lou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3383-8593)
- Yeur‐Hur Lai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0313-2634)
- Cheng‐Ping Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7872-1463)
- Jenq‐Yuh Ko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2538-558X)
- Yen–Ju Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-9144)
- Shu‐Ching Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7921-1964)
Institutions
- Dayeh University (TW)
- Chang Gung University of Science and Technology (TW)
- National Taiwan University (TW)
- National Taiwan University Hospital (TW)
- I-Shou University (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Dental Sciences
- Published
- 2025-05-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2025.05.003
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.85