Compromised quality of life in adult patients who have received a radiation dose towards the basal part of the brain. A case-control study in long-term survivors from cancer in the head and neck region

Table 3 Results from the Symptom Checklist (SLC-90) questionnaire in growth hormone sufficient adults who have received a radiation dose towards the basal part of the brain and matched controls ³

Domains	Patients n = 15	Controls n = 15	p-value
Somatisation	0.647 (0.496)	0.357 (0.366)	0.005 (0.013)
Obsessive-Compulsive	0.670 (0.578)	0.447 (0.253)	0.14
Interpersonal sensitivity	0.453 (0.504)	0.313 (0.295)	0.55
Depression	0.753 (0.666)	0.190 (0.167)	0.01 (0.03)
Anxiety	0.40 (0.417)	0.27 (0.492)	0.05 (0.09)
Hostility	0.42 (0.581)	0.22 (0.308)	0.3
Phobic Anxiety	0.11 (0.168)	0.30 (0.082)	0.08
Paranoid Ideation	0.42 (0.64)	0.16 (0.181)	0.33
Psychoticism	0.19 (0.292)	0.04 (0.063)	0.16
Global severity index	0.502 (0.444)	0.243 (0.123)	0.04 (0.08)
Positive symptom distress index	1.0 (1.73)	3.33 (11.8)	0.6

³Score given as mean value ± one standard deviation. P-values in brackets are after the exclusion of two patients with epipharynx cancer.

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