Department of Community Medicine, Maharishi Markandeshwar, Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, India.
Maharishi Markandeshwar Deemed to be University, Mullana (Ambala), India.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2023 Feb 1;24(2):641-648. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.2.641.
Cancer is the second leading reason of death in many countries, and its burden and prognosis are highly dependent on disease stage at diagnosis. Lack of perception of the population about cancer and its related risk factors usually sequel in defer/delayed presentation and increased treatment morbidity and decrease survival chances. Quality of life (QOL) is defined as Individual view of life, merits, intentions, standards and interests in the framework of culture.
To study the socio-demographic profile and factors affecting quality of life of cancer patients.
Using a cross-sectional study, between 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021, 192 cancer confirmed patients at cancer registry centre at District civil hospital, Ambala cantt. were interviewed using a pre tested semi-structured questionnaire along with EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3) questionnaire scale for QOL. The data was entered into an excel sheet and was analysed using IBM SPSS version 28.
Out of 192 patients, 95 were male and 97 were female. Results shows that female (60.05±19.167) had better mean score of QL2 than male (58.68±18.906) with P value=0.619. Overweight (BMI25.0-29.9) had better mean QL2 score (65.50±18.147) than obese (BMI>30.0) mean QL2 score (61.67±14.803), normal weight (BMI 18.0-24.9) mean QL2 score (59.57±18.575) and underweight (BMI<18.0) mean QL2 score (49.46±19.595) with P value of 0.004.
Present study found that QOL had significant association with BMI, type of cancer, history of smoking, lost income after cancer diagnosis and stage of cancer at the time of diagnosis. While gender, occupation, age group, religion, residence, marital status, type of family, income, tobacco alcohol and physical activity showed no significance association with QOL.
癌症是许多国家的第二大死亡原因，其负担和预后高度依赖于诊断时的疾病阶段。由于人们对癌症及其相关危险因素的认识不足，通常会导致就诊时间延迟/推迟，增加治疗发病率，并降低生存机会。生活质量（QOL）被定义为个人对生活、优点、意图、标准和文化框架中的利益的看法。
研究癌症患者的社会人口统计学特征和影响生活质量的因素。
采用横断面研究，于 2021 年 1 月 1 日至 12 月 31 日期间，在安巴拉坎特区民事医院癌症登记中心对 192 名癌症确诊患者进行访谈，使用预先测试的半结构式问卷和 EORTC QLQ-C30（第 3 版）问卷量表进行生活质量评估。将数据输入电子表格，并使用 IBM SPSS 版本 28 进行分析。
在 192 名患者中，95 名为男性，97 名为女性。结果显示，女性（60.05±19.167）的 QL2 平均得分高于男性（58.68±18.906），P 值=0.619。超重（BMI25.0-29.9）的 QL2 平均得分（65.50±18.147）优于肥胖（BMI>30.0）的 QL2 平均得分（61.67±14.803），正常体重（BMI 18.0-24.9）的 QL2 平均得分（59.57±18.575）和体重不足（BMI<18.0）的 QL2 平均得分（49.46±19.595），P 值为 0.004。
本研究发现，生活质量与 BMI、癌症类型、吸烟史、癌症诊断后收入损失以及诊断时的癌症分期显著相关。而性别、职业、年龄组、宗教、住所、婚姻状况、家庭类型、收入、烟酒和身体活动与生活质量无显著关联。
