[Quality of life, personality, coping style in the patients with advanced laryngeal cancer].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the relationship between the life quality of advanced laryngeal squamous cell cancer patients and their personality, coping style and other psychological factors.


METHODS
The life quality were measured for 2 sub-groups of advanced laryngeal cancer patients and the normal control group. The Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ), coping style questionnaires (CSQ) and University of Washington-quality of life (UW-QOL) were used for life quality evaluation. The 2 sub-groups of the patients on the worse speech, job and ability (group I), the better speech, job and ability (group II), and normal control.


RESULTS
(1) UW-QOL score: the total, activity, recreation, job and speech scores of group II were significantly higher than those of group I (P < 0.01). Group II was better than group I in appearance (P < 0.05). (2) EPQ score: the P and N scores in group II were lower than that in group I (P < 0.05). The E scores in group II were significantly higher than that in group I (P < 0.01). (3) CSQ score: the problem-saving factor and help-seeking factor in group II were more significantly lower than that in group I (P < 0.01). The self-blaming factor in group II were higher than that in group I (P < 0.05). (4) There was positive correlation between total scores of QOL and the problem-saving factor, help-seeking factor of CSQ, the E scores of EPQ (P < 0.05), there was negative correlation between total scores of QOL and the P scores, the N scores of EPQ (P < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
The advanced laryngeal cancer patients of group II have better life quality, and their personalities showed more extroversive, stable feeling, adaptable, mature coping styles. The above characteristics may have good effects on the prognosis of advanced laryngeal cancer.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China. fwq@hosp1.ac.cn
Wei-qing
WQ
Fang
Xiao-yun
XY
Chen
Chao-hong
CH
Guan
Jian-fu
JF
Chen
Jing-bo
JB
Wang
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018307:Neoplasms, Squamous Cell / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires