The health and well-being of people with a previous diagnosis of cancer: A record-linkage study in Scotland

Evans, Josie; Atherton, Iain; Dibben, Chris; Hubbard, Gill

Abstract

Routinely collected health care data (the Scottish Cancer Registry) were record-linked to representative survey data on health and health behaviours (the Government-funded Scottish Health Survey) to compare the health and well-being of cancer survivors in Scotland with people who had never had cancer; a methodological approach which has been under-utilised. After adjusting for age, sex and occupational classification, people with a previous diagnosis of cancer (even > 6 years previously) (n = 507) were more likely to have poorer self-assessed health, reduced activity and psychological morbidity than people who had never had cancer (n = 25,631).

Citation

Evans, J., Atherton, I., Dibben, C., & Hubbard, G. (2011). The health and well-being of people with a previous diagnosis of cancer: A record-linkage study in Scotland. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, 3, 429-432

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 14, 2011
• Deposit Date: Jan 27, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 27, 2015
• Electronic ISSN: 2141-2316
• Publisher: Academic Journals
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 429-432
• Keywords: Cancer survivors; record-linkage; routine datasets; health and well-being
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7522