Marital relationship and health-related quality of life of patients with prostate cancer and their spouses: A longitudinal clinical study.

CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study add to current knowledge of the marital relationship of patients with prostate cancer and their spouses. The spouses reported that their marital relationship had suffered, whereas the patients reported that the marital relationship remained unchanged. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: These findings may be useful when counselling of patients with prostate cancer and their spouses. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. PMID: 29516564 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Prostate Cancer - March 8, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Harju E, Rantanen A, Helminen M, Kaunonen M, Isotalo T, Åstedt-Kurki P Tags: J Clin Nurs Source Type: research