title: [Quality of life, psychological distress, and social outcomes after radical prostatectomy. Results from a urology competence center for rehabilitation].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Quality of life is an important parameter for quality assurance of the results. After radical prostatectomy, quality of life is often limited. The degree of urinary incontinence correlates significantly with quality of life.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Oncological and functional results are significantly decreased with the age of the patients. On the other hand, the psychological distress of younger patients is significantly greater than in the elderly. In the relative short period of 3-4 weeks of an inpatient rehabilitation in our urology competence center for rehabilitation, the mean decrease of urinary loss (24-h pad test) was 44.4 %. Psychological distress also decreased significantly as measured by the questionnaire on psychological distress FBK-R10 (p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With this, quality of life significantly increased in all function and symptom scales of the QLQ-C30. Thus, this makes reintegration into social life easier. The return to work rate of employed persons after our specific urological rehabilitation program following radical prostatectomy was 87 %.
authors.affiliation: Urologisches Kompetenzzentrum für die Rehabilitation (UKR), Kliniken Hartenstein, Günter-Hartenstein-Straße 8, 34537, Bad Wildungen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.affiliation: Urologisches Kompetenzzentrum für die Rehabilitation (UKR), Kliniken Hartenstein, Günter-Hartenstein-Straße 8, 34537, Bad Wildungen, Deutschland. prof.otto@klinik-quellental.de.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Otto
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D015897:Comorbidity; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D014573:Urology Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Prostate cancer; Psychooncology; Quality of life; Rehabilitation; Urinary incontinence