[Study on factors affecting the quality of life to cancer patients at the community level in Shanghai].
OBJECTIVE
A survey on cancer patients at the community level in Shanghai was performed, in order to study the factors affecting the quality of life (QOL) on them.


METHODS
To evaluate the QOL of cancer patients, self-administered Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) questionnaire and personal interview methods were used. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software (SPSS,Chicago, IL), including one-way ANOVA and linear regression methods.


RESULTS
There were 7580 valid questionnaires retrieved. Many factors were certificated to have significant relationship with QOL of cancer patients,such as family incomes, education, occupation, awareness of disease, physical exercise, cost of health care and pain (P < 0.01). Some factors however, only affecting certain aspects of the QOL, of which age, marriage state, type of tumor and stage were also noticed. KPS had strong Linear correlation with every aspect of FACT-G (P < 0.000).


CONCLUSIONS
Patients having a poor KPS, metastasis, low educational level, divorced or lost of spouse, pain, poor income, little exercise and old age would tend to have a poor QOL outcome.
Zou
Jian-jun
JJ
Department of Neoplasm, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200070, China.
Zheng
Ying
Y
Qian
Jian-xin
JX
Gu
Xiao-qiang
XQ
Wang
Jei-jun
JJ
D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011788:Quality of Life; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult