Development and Validation of the Quality-of-Life Assessment System for Lung Cancer Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine

Table 6

Responsiveness of QLASTCM-Lu and QLQ-LC43 (𝑛=240).

Domain/facet	Baseline	Three months	t	P	SRM
QLASTCM-Lu
Unity of the body and spirit	76.01±15.04	69.84±10.68	6.11	0.000	0.41
Correspondence between man and universe	52.18±17.99	61.07±10.82	−6.49	0.000	0.43
Specific module	79.81±13.79	69.50±15.41	8.88	0.000	0.59
General module	68.31±14.17	67.00±6.64	1.53	0.129	0.10
Total	71.31±13.43	67.65±8.25	4.36	0.000	0.29
QLQ-C30
Physical functioning	77.65±18.97	78.96±8.25	−1.07	0.285	0.07
Role functioning	76.12±26.90	73.21±13.55	1.61	0.109	0.11
Emotional functioning	79.84±21.56	76.41±11.57	2.42	0.017	0.16
Cognitive functioning	83.63±20.88	82.29±11.55	0.92	0.359	0.06
Social functioning	68.45±25.78	69.72±14.62	−0.75	0.455	0.05
Global health status/QoL	59.38±24.46	59.78±13.58	−0.24	0.808	0.02
Fatigue	30.46±22.26	29.91±9.75	0.36	0.720	0.02
Nausea and vomiting	7.74±15.04	5.21±9.86	2.08	0.038	0.14
Pain	23.44±24.50	24.48±15.21	−0.62	0.533	0.04
Dyspnoea	22.77±24.50	27.38±16.23	−2.52	0.012	0.17
Insomnia	25.15±34.97	25.45±16.47	−0.13	0.897	0.01
Appetite loss	16.22±22.32	23.21±17.77	−4.13	0.000	0.28
Constipation	12.20±18.94	6.25±13.42	3.97	0.000	0.27
Diarrhoea	8.18±31.21	2.53±8.85	2.61	0.010	0.17
Financial difficulties	28.27±28.48	31.99±19.02	−1.83	0.069	0.12
QLQ-LC13
Dyspnoea	20.88±20.04	19.15±10.12	1.31	0.191	0.09
Coughing	29.17±26.83	29.91±16.19	−0.38	0.703	0.03
Haemoptysis	9.08±18.19	3.27±10.43	4.52	0.000	0.30
Sore mouth	4.32±13.98	0.74±4.94	3.55	0.000	0.24
Dysphagia	6.85±17.08	2.98±9.53	2.96	0.003	0.20
Peripheral neuropathy	7.89±18.20	3.72±10.98	2.94	0.004	0.20
Alopecia	13.54±23.41	10.27±20.67	1.65	0.101	0.11
Pain in chest	21.88±24.91	23.81±17.54	−1.10	0.275	0.07
Pain in arm/shoulder	12.35±20.49	5.80±13.43	3.95	0.000	0.26
Pain in other parts	8.18±19.14	2.38±9.69	4.40	0.000	0.29

*Mean ± SD.