Quality of Life of Women Survived after Breast Cancer Surgery

Abstract

Introduction: Quality of life(QOL) is a complicated and multidimensionalmeasure that affects the diagnosis and impact the treatment of a disease. QOLcontinuously impacts the daily lives and activities of patients with breast cancerduring and after recovery. The current study aimed to: identify therelationship between bio socio-demographic characteristics and quality of lifeof women identify the relationship between bio socio-demographiccharacteristics and quality of life of women undergone surgery as a treatmentfor breast cancer. Methodology: a descriptive cross-sectional design wasadopted. Data was collected by conducting home visits for 120 randomlyelected adult women who had undergone breast surgery as a treatment forbreast cancer. Bio-socio-demographic structured interview schedule, QLQ-C30and QLQ-C23 were used for data collection. Results: there was significantlyhigher frequencies effect of marital status, tumor condition before surgery,client’s activity and time period between diagnosis & surgery as predictors onQLQ-C30 (p = 0.05). Conclusion: The overall quality of life of the study participants wasbelow average compared to international references. Functional and symptomscales were affected in women after surgery. There was significantly higherfrequencies effect of demographic factors as marital status, education, familyincome, family housing and clinical characteristics as tumor condition beforesurgery, breast cancer stage, client’s activity, time period between diagnosis &surgery and post-surgery treatment as predictors on QLQ-C30 and QLQ-C23.While, age, occupation, after surgery medical problem and family history werenot predicted by relation to participants’ quality of life. Key words: Breastcancer, quality of life, therapy impact, breast cancer survivals