Quality of life and its determinants: A study among cancer patients in radiotherapy outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital of Kolkata
Journal Title: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Holistic Health - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
IntroductionCancer patients suffer a lot physically emotionally practically In some cancer disease quality of life has become an important end point for treatment Thus quality of life assessment becomes an important issue among cancer patientsObjectiveTo evaluate the quality of life of cancer patients attending Radiotherapy OPD in IPGMER Kolkata and to find out if any association of sociodemographic profile with the quality of lifeMaterials and Methods A descriptive type of observational study with cross sectional study design was conducted among the patients attending Radiotherapy OPD of IPGMER SSKM HospitalResultsThe most negatively affected domain by cancer was the psychological domain which had the lowest mean score among all the domains 3725163 Mean scores in psychological 414 and environmental domain 543 were significantly pConclusionsMost affected by cancer is psychological quality of life But with longer duration of cancer patients seemed to get adjusted with the suffering Undergoing surgery not only improved physical perception of health but also acted as a psychological boost up KeywordsQuality of life Domains Duration of cancer Cancer related surgery
Authors and Affiliations
Sinjita Dutta, Abhishek De, Sarbajit Ray, Mausumi Basu, Raghunath Misra
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