Wu HZ. Correlation among postoperative uncertainty, social support, and quality of life in patients with esophageal cancer in a tertiary hospital.
Shijie Huaren Xiaohua Zazhi 2020;
28:296-300. [DOI:
10.11569/wcjd.v28.i8.296]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors. It is easy to cause patients to change their dietary structure after surgery, which leads to decreased quality of life. The decrease of quality of life affects the patients' psychosocial mood to some extent, and the degree of social support is one of the important factors affecting the quality of life of cancer patients.
AIM
To investigate the correlation among the feeling of disease uncertainty, social support, and quality of life in patients with esophageal cancer after operation in a tertiary hospital.
METHODS
A total of 120 patients admitted to Yiwu Central Hospital of Zhejiang Province from February 2017 to September 2019 after esophageal cancer surgery were selected as study subjects. After admission, the patients were investigated and analyzed using the scales of disease uncertainty, social support status, and quality of life. SPSS 23.0 software was used to analyze the data, and the correlation between postoperative quality of life and social support was analyzed by multiple regression.
RESULTS
The disease uncertainty scores of patients with esophageal cancer were 68-126 (102.65 ± 8.76). Among the four dimensions, the score of uncertainty dimension was 3.56 ± 0.46, the complexity score was 2.87 ± 0.52, the score of unpredictability of prognosis was 3.12 ± 0.35, and the score of lack of information was 3.62 ± 0.34. The postoperative social support score of patients with esophageal cancer was 41.87 ± 8.96, which was significantly higher than the norm score (33.75 ± 4.12; P < 0.05). The scores of body function, role function, and overall health dimensions of the postoperative quality of life scale in patients with esophageal cancer were positively correlated with social support (r = 0.724, 0.602, and 0.654, respectively). Physical function and overall health were positively correlated with subjective support (r = 0.712, 0.625). Body function was positively correlated with objective support (r = 0.528). Role function and overall health were positively correlated with paired support utilization (r = 0.538, 0.526).
CONCLUSION
The overall postoperative quality of life of patients with esophageal cancer is positively correlated with three dimensions of social support, indicating that social support plays an important role in patients' quality of life.
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