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Hanly et al., [1] conducted a cohort study using a validated questionnaire—EPIC [1] (n = 21). There is significant loss to follow-up thus limiting the strength of the findings. It is overall a paper of moderate quality, based on sample size, loss to follow-up and strength of conclusions drawn. It is evident that is psychosexual care impacts on quality of life and needs to be addressed by clinicians (Level 2b, recommendation A). The requirement for psychosexual care is confirmed by [1, 2, 3], demonstrating the need for psychosexual care. Although these are qualitative papers of moderate quality [4], this theme of psychosexual care is an important one to address with this study.
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Hanly et al., [1] conducted a cohort study using a validated questionnaire—EPIC [1] (n = 21). There is significant loss to follow-up thus limiting the strength of the findings. It is overall a paper of moderate quality, based on sample size, loss to follow-up and strength of conclusions drawn. It is evident that is psychosexual care impacts on quality of life and needs to be addressed by clinicians (Level 2b, recommendation A). The requirement for psychosexual care is confirmed by [1, 2, 3], demonstrating the need for psychosexual care. Although these are qualitative papers of moderate quality [4], this theme of psychosexual care is an important one to address with this study.
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Goonewardene, S.S., Persad, R. (2018). Psychosexual Care and Quality of Life. In: Prostate Cancer Survivorship . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65358-7_30
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