Keywords
Quality of life
Anxiety
Depression
Submitted : 2024-09-29
Accepted : 2024-10-14
Published : 2024-10-29
Abstract
Objective: To investigate the quality of life and related influencing factors of patients with advanced lung cancer. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 51 patients with advanced lung cancer who were hospitalized in the Department of Oncology from January 2023 to December 2023, and the influencing factors of patients’ quality of life were analyzed. Results: Among the five functional scales (physical, role, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning) of the QLQ-C30 scale, the social and emotional function scores were the lowest, respectively 16.7 (IQR: 0, 33.3) points, and 16.7 (IQR: 8.3, 25), and among the three symptom scales (fatigue, pain, nausea and vomiting), the fatigue symptom score was the highest: 77.7 (IQR: 66.7, 88.9) points. The results of Spearman correlation analysis showed that the anxiety score of patients with advanced lung cancer was positively correlated with depression score (P < 0.01), while the quality of life of patients with advanced lung cancer was not correlated with anxiety and depression score (P > 0.1). The self-care ability, the nature of the disease, and whether the patient was treated for chemotherapy were the independent influencing factors of the patient’s quality of life, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Patients with advanced lung cancer have different degrees of anxiety and depression, and their quality of life is affected by many factors, which are mainly related to the patient’s self-care ability, the nature of the disease, and whether they received chemotherapy.
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