Abstract
Resilience, which is a measure of a patient's ability to recover from a traumatic event, varies among the general population, and previous studies have suggested that it has an important influence on a patient's quality of life. We conducted a study of patients treated for cancer of the head and neck to investigate the relation between scores for resilience and quality of life (QoL). A total of 98 patients, who had been treated with curative intent, completed the University of Washington quality of life questionnaire (UW-QoL) and the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC). Retrospective analysis of patients' records identified demographic data, stage of disease, and treatment. The Mann-Whitney U-test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman's rank correlation were used to assess the significance of differences between the groups. The mean (SE) QoL score after treatment was 61 (2.081), and the mean CD-RISC score 0.427 for QoL in the last seven days. There was a significant correlation between overall scores for QoL and resilience (Spearman's Rho=0.427, p<0.005). As higher resilience scores had a significant correlation with a better QoL, strengthening a patient's resilience might in turn help to improve their quality of life.
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