Study Quality of Life of Women with Ovarian Tumors in Vietnam

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to study quality of life of women with ovarian tumors in vietnamMethods: Women after surgery for ovarian tumors were recruited from Hue Central Hospital and HueUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy from January 2019 to December 2020 by a descriptive cross-sectionalstudy.Women have a preoperative diagnosis as ovarian tumors, but postoperative diagnosis was not physicalinjury in the ovaries. Patients with a history of ovarian or primary peritoneal cancer or any associated cancer.Patients did not agree to join the study. Patients with mental illness.Result: The average level of occupational quality of life in benign tumor group and malignant tumor onecomprises 51.8% and 38.7%, respectively; and the low one in benign tumor group is 36.8% and malignanttumor group is 45.2%. The difference between the occupational quality of life in two groups is statisticallysignificant (p <0.05).The high level of health quality of life in benign group for 29.4% while two groupsshare a percentage of 26.2. The health quality of life at average level in benign tumors is 61.9% contrast to28.6% of malignant tumors. The low level of health quality of life in benign tumor and malignant tumor is9.4% and 70.9% respectively. The very low level of health quality of life in benign tumor is 14.3%.Emotional quality of life at high level in benign tumors is 0.0%. The emotional quality of life at low level is29.8% in benign and 61.3% in malignant tumor. The very low level of emotional quality of life is at 22.5%.The sexual quality of life at very high level in ovarian tumor patients is 0%. The sexual quality of life atvery low level in malignant tumor is 29.1% and the whole group is 3.5% (p <0.05).The very low level oftotal quality of life in ovarian tumor group accounts for 4.9%, including 45.1% in malignant group and 0%in benign group (p <0.05). The low level of total quality of life in ovarian tumor group consists of 29.7%,specifically the malignant group is 29% and the benign one makes up 29.8%. The average level of totalquality of life in ovarian tumor group comprises 68.9% the high total quality of life in the ovarian tumorgroup is 11.1% consisting of 0%in malignant group and 3.9% in benign one. (p <0.05).Conclusion: The quality of life in terms of health, emotion and sex at very low level and low level inmalignant group have a higher rate than the benign one.