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. 2016 May 6:14:73.
doi: 10.1186/s12955-016-0481-z.

Effects of social support, hope and resilience on quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients: a cross-sectional study

Meng-Yao Li  1 , Yi-Long Yang  1 , Li Liu  1 , Lie Wang  2
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Effects of social support, hope and resilience on quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients: a cross-sectional study

Meng-Yao Li et al. Health Qual Life Outcomes. .

Abstract

Background: Improvement of quality of life has been one of goals in health care for people living with bladder cancer. Meanwhile, positive psycho-social variables in oncology field have increasingly received attention. However, the assessment of quality of life of bladder cancer patients and the integrative effects of positive psycho-social variables has limited reporting. The aim of this study was to assess quality of life as well as the integrative effects of social support, hope and resilience on quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the First Hospital of China Medical University in Liaoning Province, China. A total of 365 bladder cancer patients eligible for this study completed questionnaires on demographic variables, FACT-BL, Perceived Social Support Scale, Adult Hope Scale, and Resilience Scale-14 during July 2013 to July 2014.

Results: The average score of FACT-BL was 87.60 ± 16.27 (Mean ± SD). Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that social support, hope and resilience as a whole accounted for 30.3 % variance of quality of life. Under standardized estimate (β) sequence, social support, hope and resilience significantly and positively associated with quality of life, respectively.

Conclusions: Quality of life for bladder cancer patients was at a low level in China, which should receive more attention in Chinese medical institutions. More importantly, efforts to increase social support, hope and resilience might be useful to support the quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients.

Keywords: Bladder cancer; Hope; Psycho-social factors; Quality of life; Resilience; Social support.

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