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P2.10 - Nursing/Palliative Care/Ethics (ID 711)
- Event: WCLC 2017
- Type: Poster Session with Presenters Present
- Track: Nursing/Palliative Care/Ethics
- Presentations: 1
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- Coordinates: 10/17/2017, 09:30 - 16:00, Exhibit Hall (Hall B + C)
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P2.10-002 - A Study on the Relation between Gender and Quality of Life for Lung Cancer Patients (ID 8885)
09:30 - 09:30 | Author(s): W.M. Wang
- Abstract
Background:
Two papers showed that female lung cancer patients have poorer QoL. But others papers didn't have consistence conclusion. In author's NCKUH-10207013 study, the result showed that male patients improved more than female over time in the domains of physical, psychological and social quality of life. The purpose of this study was to understand the demographic status and characteristic of QOL in different gender. And to understand the related factors of the QOL in different gender.
Method:
The study design was to analyze secondary databases. The study samples were lung cancer patients who were diagnosed at National Cheng Kung University Hospital and joined WHOQOL interview in DOH100-TD-C-111-003 study. The databases included the cancer registration database, the diagnosis and treatment database for lung cancer, and the NCKUH quality of life database. Using SPSS and SAS 9.3 software, regression madel and mixed-models were constructed to explore the difference and related factors of quality of life between gender.
Result:
409 females and 446 males lung cancer patients were included this study. Female lung cancer patients were diagnosed with younger age, higher proportion of non-working status and single status. Female had lower score in psychological domain of QoL at 6th months after diagnosis. But female had better score than male in physical domain of QoL at 9th months after diagnosis. For the QoL details items of each domains, there were significant negative differences of female in pain, energy, active ability, sleep, daily activity, thinking, bodily image, self-esteem, negative feeling. Figure 1
Conclusion:
The larger significant differences between gender were pain and sleep of the physical domain, and bodily image and negative feelings of the psychological domain. The results of this study could understand the differences of QoL between gender. More resources and care plans should to be explored for different gender to improve their QoL and prevention QoL decrease.
