Factors Influencing the Quality of Life among Jordanian Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment: A Cross Sectional Study (original) (raw)
The current study aimed to assess the quality of life (QOL) and to determine its predictors among Jordanian women undergoing breast cancer treatment at public referral hospital in Amman, Jordan. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used; two hundred women participated in the study. The QOL-Breast Cancer Version (QOL-BC) questionnaire was used to collect the data. The worst overall mean QOL scores of participants for each domain were for fatigue and pain in the physical domain; distress from cancer diagnosis and distress from chemotherapy treatment in the psychological domain; fear of the occurrence of cancer among relatives and family distress from the illness in the social domain; and the importance of religious activity and change of spiritual life as a result of cancer in the spiritual domain. Regression analysis revealed that type of surgery, type of treatment, chemotherapy dose and stage were good predictors of the QOL of women with breast cancer. Jordanian women undergoing...
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