Skrzypczak Magdalena, Czerniak Urszula, Laski Piotr
Department of Human Developmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Poznan, Poland.
Contemp Oncol (Pozn). 2012;16(6):569-75. doi: 10.5114/wo.2012.32492. Epub 2013 Jan 4.
The main objective of the study is to specify whether socio-demographic factors and physical activity result in differences in subjective assessment of life in women diagnosed with breast cancer.
The study group consisted of 145 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The women had undergone radical surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The participants filled in an anonymous questionnaire which contained a number of detailed questions relating to their socio-demographic standing, life style, condition and the current self-assessment of life after breast cancer. In order to assess the differences between groups made on the basis of socio-economic variables, the Kruskal-Wallis rank test was used. For a comprehensive assessment of relations, multiple correspondence analysis on the basis of Burt tables was used.
Their mean age at the time of the study was 57.1 years. The analysis of the effect of education and marital status on differences in the assessment of quality of life showed that these variables resulted in differences in the sphere related to social contacts (better educated women more often avoided social contacts) and in feeling of fatigue and exhaustion (the participants who were in a relationship indicated less fatigue and exhaustion).
Mastectomy caused by breast cancer in women and related chemotherapy and radiotherapy negatively affect the physical and emotional condition of patients involving mental stress. Selected socio-demographic factors and elements of life style co-exist with each other, interpenetrating; thus the assessment of quality of life should comprise a set of factors and take into consideration their mutual interrelations.
本研究的主要目的是明确社会人口统计学因素和体育活动是否会导致被诊断为乳腺癌的女性对生活的主观评估存在差异。
研究组由145名被诊断为乳腺癌的女性组成。这些女性均接受了根治性手术、化疗和放疗。参与者填写了一份匿名问卷，其中包含许多与她们的社会人口统计学状况、生活方式、病情以及乳腺癌后当前生活自我评估相关的详细问题。为了评估基于社会经济变量划分的组间差异，使用了Kruskal-Wallis秩和检验。为了全面评估关系，基于伯特表进行了多重对应分析。
研究时她们的平均年龄为57.1岁。对教育程度和婚姻状况对生活质量评估差异的影响分析表明，这些变量在与社交接触相关的领域（受教育程度较高的女性更常避免社交接触）以及疲劳和疲惫感方面（处于恋爱关系中的参与者表示疲劳和疲惫感较少）导致了差异。
女性因乳腺癌进行的乳房切除术以及相关的化疗和放疗对患者的身体和情绪状况产生负面影响，包括精神压力。选定的社会人口统计学因素和生活方式要素相互共存、相互渗透；因此，生活质量评估应包括一系列因素，并考虑它们之间的相互关系。
