Background: people with cancer experience great changes in their life as a result of disease, treatment and disease prognosis which affect their quality of life .with the goal of investigating breast cancer patient's quality of life during chemother
apy in Tishreen hospital in Latakia..
Methods: 60 patients were invited to complete the European organization of research and treatment quality of life questionnaire version 3 and breast cancer quality of life module during their early stage of chemotherapy.
Results : the results show that the (73.3%) were under the age of fifty and half of them reported total health status score under (50) which reflects low quality of life in addition to impaired psychological ,social, cognitive and role functioning. Also more than 67% of patient suffered from chemotherapy- related side effects as nausea and vomiting, dyspnea, loss of appetite, insomnia, and fatigue. In addition to variance in quality of life scores according to age, marital status, occupation and level of education without changing of it by educational level. In addition to that the majority of patient had impaired sexual function and upset of hair loss and arm symptoms but with positive and optimistic future.
perspective. No significant differences in quality of life scores were found between urban and rural patients. Conclusion. Health care provider should assess routinely cancer patient quality of life during treatment to ascertain of providing appropriate care with supportive services for all patients
In spite of all the advances in health care and medical technology,
provision of quality health care to cancer patients remains one of the
major challenges that health care professionals have to face in the
next years.
this study was conducted to
assess the effect of nursing care on
breast cancer patients quality of life at homes.
by using quazi-experimental design 80 breast cancer patients were
selected (40 experimental group ,40 control group) receiving
chemotherapy recently. Experimental group patients received
supportive psycho-educational interventions consisted of education,
progressive muscle relaxation technique with four supportive range
of motion exercises in addition to emotional support for three
months. While control group patients received routine nursing care
in hospital. The results were assessed for both groups by using
European organization for cancer research and treatment quality of
life questionnaire (EOCRT-QLQ C30) and breast cancer module.
Assessment of quality of life after surgical treatment in breast surgery patients,
and comparing quality of life between quadrantectomy and modified radical mastectomy for invasive
ductal carcinoma measuring 40 mm or less.
The study aimed to identify the relationship between social
support and quality of life in a sample of teenagers with physical
disabilities in Damascus governorate level, and know of the
differences in their social support and quality of life, acc
ording to two
variables (sex and age). The study sample consisted of 112 students
from physical disabilities Adolescents were selected purposely from
government special education centers, and applied to them two Tools
social support and quality of life, and are prepared by the researcher
after verifying of validity and reliability.
This study included 232 patient with acne between the ages of 12 and 38 years old.
Acne vulgaris was graded using Global Acne Grading System (GAGS). This study was
undertaken to detect the impact of acne vulgaris and related factors that may influe
nce the
quality of life (QoL). QoL was measured using a combination of skin disease-specific
(Dermatological Life Quality Index (DLQI)) and acne-specific (Cardiff Acne Disability
Index (CADI)) questionnaires.
The results showed significant impairment of QoL in acne patients , females were
more affected than the males, there was no association between age and quality of life
impairment and the impact was proportional to the severity of acne, more severe acne is
associated with greater effect on quality of life.
