[Treatment for an adjustment disorder after cancer: results of a Dutch study].

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of treatment for an adjustment disorder in accordance with the Dutch guideline for an adjustment disorder in cancer survivor (i.e. people living with or after cancer) on distress, psychological symptoms and quality of life.

Joint analysis of multiple longitudinal outcomes: application of a latent class model.

We address the problem of joint analysis of more than one series of longitudinal measurements. The typical way of approaching this problem is as a joint mixed effects model for the two outcomes. Apart from the large number of parameters needed to specify such a model, perhaps the biggest drawback of this approach is the difficulty in interpreting the results of the model, particularly when the main interest is in the relation between the two longitudinal outcomes.