Prevalence of global health and oral health questionnaires in the assessment of quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer submitted to radiotherapy

Authors

  • Guilherme Simpione Universidade de São Paulo
  • Isabela Camera Messias Bueno Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru - USP
  • Raqual D’Aquino Garcia Caminha
  • Paulo Sergio da Silva Santos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/uftv8-9121

Abstract

Head and neck cancer (HNC) represents a group of malignant tumors and radiotherapy (RT) is a highly used treatment, however it has side effects such as oral mucositis, trismus, xerostomia and / or hyposalivation, among others. Questionnaires were developed to assess the quality of life (QOL) of these patients and the objective of this review was to assess the prevalence of questionnaires for assessing oral and general health of patients undergoing RT for HNC in the literature. Searches in the PubMed® and Lilacs databases were performed with the keywords: “Oral health”, “Quality of life”, “Head and neck neoplasms”, “Radiotherapy”,“Oral health”, “Quality of life”, "Head and neck neoplasms" and "Radiotherapy"; inclusion criteria: articles from QOL questionnaires in patients with HNC treated with RT with/without other antineoplastic treatments; study type: randomized, non-randomized, viability, cross-sectional, linear regression, prospective, longitudinal prospective and randomized prospective; available online; period: 2000-2020, published in Portuguese/English. Total of 18 articles selected using general and global health questionnaires in a patient with HNC. It is concluded that the questionnaire of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (specific version for HNC H & 35 was the most applied followed by its version focused on global health (C30).

Published

2021-10-20

How to Cite

Simpione, G., Camera Messias Bueno, I. ., D’Aquino Garcia Caminha, R., & Sergio da Silva Santos, P. . (2021). Prevalence of global health and oral health questionnaires in the assessment of quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer submitted to radiotherapy. DESAFIOS - Revista Interdisciplinar Da Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, 8(2), 193–203. https://doi.org/10.20873/uftv8-9121

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