Purpose
This study was conducted to determine a hypothetical model for the factors affecting uterine cancer patients’ health-related quality of life.
Methods
Data were collected from 409 patients with cervical cancer or endometrial cancer, between March 16 and May 15, 2015, using a self-administered questionnaire . The data were analyzed using SPSS v18 and AMOS v21.
Results
The model supported 14 of the 19 hypotheses for all participants. The results indicated that resilience, marital intimacy, social support, and perceived health status directly affected participants’ quality of life, while sexual function indirectly affected participants’ quality of life. Of these variables, perceived health status had the strongest direct effect on participants’ quality of life. Social support and sexual function were found to directly affect perceived health status. Somatic symptoms were found to directly affect sexual function, and resilience and marital intimacy in turn were found to directly affect somatic symptoms.
Conclusion
These results suggest that management strategies to enhance uterine cancer patients’ quality of life should address patients’ perceived health status, social support, sexual function, and marital intimacy.

Citations

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PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to identify how self-care agency and social support influence self-care practices among spinal cord injured patients.
METHODS
106 spinal cord injured patients were recruited from April 12 to May 28, 2016. Structured questionnaires used were the Korean version of the Appraisal of the Self-Care Agency Scale Revised (ASAS-R), the Social Support Scale, and the Spinal Cord Injury Lifestyle Scale (SCILS). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlations, and Stepwise multiple regression analysis with the SPSS/WIN 23.0 program.
RESULTS
Self-care practices had a significant association with self-care agency (β=.30, p=.002), social support (β=.24, p=.010), and monthly income (β=.18, p=.038). A total of 21.5% of the variance explained the self-care practice among spinal cord injured patients and was explained by self-care agency, social support, and monthly income. The self-care agency was the factor most influential on self-care practices among spinal cord injured patients explaining 15.4% of variance.
CONCLUSION
The result suggests that developing strategies enhance spinal cord injured patients' self-care agency and self-care practices.

Citations

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  Min-Yi Song, Min-Jeong Park
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing.2022; 29(3): 284.     CrossRef
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PURPOSE
This was a correlation study to identify the relationship of spiritual well-being, hope on fatigue in cancer patients on chemotherapy.
METHODS
The subjects completed structured questionnaires: the 'Spiritual Well-being Scale', developed by Paloutzian & Ellison, 'Hope Scale', developed by Kim & Lee and 'Fatigue Scale', developed by Mendoza et al. Data were collected from 120 patientsat two general hospitals and were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA & Sheffe's test, Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple stepwise regression.
RESULTS
Participants with higher fatigue had lower scores for hope (r=-.36, p<.001) and lower scores for spiritual well-being (r=-.23, p= .011). Participants with higher scores for hope had higher scores for spiritual well-being (r=.61, p<.001). The factors seen as contributing to fatigue were hope, financial burden of treatment, period of religious life, living with spouse, and reported pain. These variables explained 32.3% of the variance in fatigue. Hope with 13% was the most influential.
CONCLUSION
The fatigue of the cancer patients on chemotherapy can be reduced if hope is improved, and hope can be improved if the spiritual well-being is improved. Therefore, we suggest developing a nursing intervention program that leads to improve hope and spiritual well-being of the cancer patients on chemotherapy for reducing fatigue.