Outcome | Measure | Description | Source of data | Visits | ||
Baseline | 6–9 months | 18 months | ||||
Section 1: psychosocial data | ||||||
Satisfaction and well-being with reconstructive surgery | BREAST-Q Reconstructive Module55 | Satisfaction and surgery-related quality of life before and after breast reconstructive surgery Reference time period: 2 weeks | PRO | √ | √ | √ |
Preoperative form | 45 items: | |||||
Postoperative form |
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Range: 0–100, higher score means greater satisfaction or better QOL (depending on the scale). | ||||||
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) | EORTC QLQ-3045 46 | Patient’s health Reference time period: past week 30 items:
| PRO | √ | √ | √ |
EORTC QLQ-BRC2347 48 | Supplementary breast cancer module. Patient symptoms or problems 23 items: Likert scale from 1 (not at all) to 4 (very much)
| PRO | √ | √ | √ | |
Range: 0–100, high score represents high health-related QOL for global health status, functional scales and symptoms scales | ||||||
Body image disturbance | Body Image Scale49 50 | 10 items Likert scale from 0 (not at all) to 3 (very much) Range: 0–30, lower scores equal fewer body image troubles | PRO | √ | √ | √ |
Self-esteem | Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale51 52 | 10 items Reference time period: over the past 2 weeks Likert scale from 0 (strongly agree) to 4 (strongly disagree) | PRO | √ | √ | √ |
Range: 0–40, higher scores indicate higher self-esteem | ||||||
Depression | Patient Health Questionnaire-9 53 54 | Nine items Reference time period: over the past 2 weeks Likert scale from 0 (not at all) to 3 (nearly every day) Additional item in a Likert scale from not difficult at all to extremely difficult | PRO | √ | √ | √ |
EORTC, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer; HRQoL, Health-related quality of life; PRO, patient-reported outcome; QLQ-30, Quality of Life Questionnaire version 3.0; QLQ-BRC23, Quality of Life Questionnaire supplementary Breast Cancer Module; QOL, quality of life.