title: Quality-of-life concerns of Chinese patients with advanced cancer.
abstract: This study aimed to examine the quality of life (QOL) of patients with advanced cancer in Hong Kong. Ninety participants were recruited from the oncology ward of the study hospital. They responded to a 28-item, 8-subscale multidimensional questionnaire and a single-item scale that measured QOL in a face-to-face interview. Participation in health care decisions, food-related concerns, and existential distress were some QOL concerns that require health care professionals' attention. Walking ability predicted the level of QOL in certain QOL domains that surfaces patients' need for rehabilitation. That the QOL domain value of life was the most important domain that predicted overall QOL calls for meaning-of-life interventions for palliative care.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. liamkplau@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Liam Ka-Po
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mok
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Betty
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D016522:Oncology Service, Hospital; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires