PMID: 16536300Mar 16, 2006Paper

Study on factors affecting the quality of life to cancer patients at the community level in Shanghai

Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi
Jian-Jun ZouJei-jun Wang

Abstract

A survey on cancer patients at the community level in Shanghai was performed, in order to study the factors affecting the quality of life (QOL) on them. To evaluate the QOL of cancer patients, self-administered Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) questionnaire and personal interview methods were used. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software (SPSS,Chicago, IL), including one-way ANOVA and linear regression methods. There were 7580 valid questionnaires retrieved. Many factors were certificated to have significant relationship with QOL of cancer patients,such as family incomes, education, occupation, awareness of disease, physical exercise, cost of health care and pain (P < 0.01). Some factors however, only affecting certain aspects of the QOL, of which age, marriage state, type of tumor and stage were also noticed. KPS had strong Linear correlation with every aspect of FACT-G (P < 0.000). Patients having a poor KPS, metastasis, low educational level, divorced or lost of spouse, pain, poor income, little exercise and old age would tend to have a poor QOL outcome.

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