Abstract
BackgroundImprovement of quality of life has been one of goals in health care for people living with bladder cancer. Meanwhile, positive psycho-social variables in oncology field have increasingly received attention. However, the assessment of quality of life of bladder cancer patients and the integrative effects of positive psycho-social variables has limited reporting. The aim of this study was to assess quality of life as well as the integrative effects of social support, hope and resilience on quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted at the First Hospital of China Medical University in Liaoning Province, China. A total of 365 bladder cancer patients eligible for this study completed questionnaires on demographic variables, FACT-BL, Perceived Social Support Scale, Adult Hope Scale, and Resilience Scale-14 during July 2013 to July 2014.ResultsThe average score of FACT-BL was 87.60 ± 16.27 (Mean ± SD). Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that social support, hope and resilience as a whole accounted for 30.3 % variance of quality of life. Under standardized estimate (β) sequence, social support, hope and resilience significantly and positively associated with quality of life, respectively.ConclusionsQuality of life for bladder cancer patients was at a low level in China, which should receive more attention in Chinese medical institutions. More importantly, efforts to increase social support, hope and resilience might be useful to support the quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients.
Highlights
Improvement of quality of life has been one of goals in health care for people living with bladder cancer
Participants aged over 75 years had significantly lower scores of quality of life (QOL)
Results indicated that participants exercised regularly had higher level of QOL
Summary
Improvement of quality of life has been one of goals in health care for people living with bladder cancer. Positive psycho-social variables in oncology field have increasingly received attention. The assessment of quality of life of bladder cancer patients and the integrative effects of positive psycho-social variables has limited reporting. The aim of this study was to assess quality of life as well as the integrative effects of social support, hope and resilience on quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients. Improvement of quality of life (QOL) has been one of goals in health care for people living with bladder cancer. Researchers increasingly recognize the value of considering how to improve the QOL of patients with bladder cancer and prolong the survival length [2]. On the basis of the literature review, external factor (social support) and internal factors (hope and resilience) were key research points in this field
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