title: Sexual satisfaction, anxiety, depression and quality of life in testicular cancer survivors.
abstract: We aimed to investigate anxiety, depression and sexual satisfaction levels of testicular cancer survivors (TCSs) and compare the scores with healthy men's. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Golombok-Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS) and European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer Questionnaires Quality of Life-C30 were used. Forty-one TCSs and thirty-eight healthy men were participated in this study. The total HADs scores of TCSs (12.21 ± 8.19) were less than the healthy group (14.44 ± 6.53; p > 0.05). The high depression scores rate was 29.2 and 55.2, and high anxiety scores rate was 24.4 and 28.9 for TCSs and healthy group, respectively. When we evaluated GRISS subscores and anxiety levels, we found significantly increase only in avoidance subscores in the TCSs (p = 0.04). When we evaluated GRISS subscores and depression levels, GRISS subscores of the TCSs who had high depression scores were also high. However, statistical significance was found in satisfaction (p = 0.009), touch (p = 0.04), avoidance (p = 0.01) and erectile dysfunction (p = 0.04) subscores in the TCSs. In the TCSs whose anxiety scores were high, emotional functioning (p = 0.009) and global QoL (p = 0.01) subscores of GRISS was found significantly low. In the TCSs whose depression scores were high, physical (p = 0.01), cognitive (p = 0.04), emotional (p = 0.03), social functioning (p = 0.02) and global QoL (p < 0.001) subscores of GRISS were found significantly low. Anxiety, depression and sexual satisfaction levels of TCSs were found to be similar with the control population.
authors.affiliation: Medical Oncology Clinic, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University, 35360, Izmir, Turkey, dralaca2000@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alacacioglu
authors.forename: Eda
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authors.lastname: Ulger
authors.forename: Umut
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authors.lastname: Varol
authors.forename: Tugba
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authors.lastname: Yavuzsen
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authors.lastname: Akyol
authors.forename: Yasar
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authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Ibrahim
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authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Vedat
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authors.lastname: Bayoglu
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dirican
authors.forename: Lutfiye
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Demir
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authors.lastname: Salman
authors.forename: Yuksel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kucukzeybek
authors.forename: Inci
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authors.lastname: Alacacioglu
authors.forename: Huseyin
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authors.lastname: Can
authors.forename: Mustafa Oktay
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authors.lastname: Tarhan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*