Quality of life among cervical cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy.
Cervical cancer
FACT-G questionnaire
assessment
quality of life
Journal
The Pan African medical journal
ISSN: 1937-8688
Titre abrégé: Pan Afr Med J
Pays: Uganda
ID NLM: 101517926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
23
01
2019
accepted:
27
02
2020
entrez:
9
7
2020
pubmed:
9
7
2020
medline:
29
12
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
There has been an increasing rate of the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in Ghana. Cancer and the treatment's side effects have adverse effects on the patients and this affects patient's well-being and lifestyle during and after radiotherapy. The study sought to assess the impact of demographic and clinical characteristics on Quality of Life (QoL) among cervical cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy in Ghana. A cross sectional quantitative study design was carried out on 120 cervical cancer patients who were conveniently sampled from the study site. The data was collected between the months of December, 2017 and February, 2018. QoL was measured using the FACT-G questionnaire. The mean scores of QoL were determined, whiles the chi-square test was used to determine the impact of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics on the QoL of the patients. The mean age of the patients was 56.8 years. Majority of the patients reported stable QoL. The social well-being of the older patients was more affected than other patients. The unmarried, widows and patients who underwent surgery with radiotherapy were emotionally affected. Majority (56%) of the participants had stable QoL whiles 22% each had poor and good QoL. Significant association was found among 35-39 age group with physical well-being and overall QoL (p=0.017 and 0.029) respectively. There is a need to embrace a QoL assessment instrument in the study site so as to help the oncology team in the identification and addressing of specific indicators that affect the QoL of cervical cancer patients.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32637023
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.35.125.18245
pii: PAMJ-35-125
pmc: PMC7320782
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
125Informations de copyright
© Kofi Adesi Kyei et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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