Health Behaviors and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL)

Due to advancements in early detection and treatment, many cancer survivors can expect to live for decades. Despite these encouraging projections, cancer survivors are at increased risk for recurrence, secondary cancers, late effects of treatment, and a variety of symptoms that can adversely affect HRQoL. Thus, investigators are now focusing on ways to attenuate these secondary health problems and improve health related quality of life (HRQoL). Our work at UConn has focused on the prevalence of health behaviors and associations with HRQoL and morbidity in cancer survivors across the lifespan.  One recently completed project focused on developing a comprehensive measure of adolescent and young adult survivors’ HRQoL. We have also conducted yoga interventions to improve pediatric cancer patients HRQoL. Click here for our recent publications and news related to this work.