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KMID : 0377619950600010039
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1995 Volume.60 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.47
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A study on the Relationship of Family Support and Personality with Quality of Life in the Patients Receiving Radiotherapy for Cancer
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Abstract
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This descriptive-correlational study was undertaken in order to investigate the relationship of family support and personality with quality of life in patients receiving radiotherapy for cancer and to provide basic data to help them improve a better quality of life.
The subjects of this study were 110 out-patients experiencing a radiotherapy at C University Hospital in K-city, from April to October, 1992. The data were obtained using a convenience sampling technique.
The tools used for this study were Ro´s Quality of Life scale, Kang´s Family Support scale and Wallston & others Health Locus of Control scale. The collected data were analyzed by the SAS program using ANOVA, Pearson´s Correlation Coefficients and stepwise multiple regression.
The results were as follows :
1. The average total score of the quality of life of the subjects was 139.65(minimum score 121-maximum score 164), item mean score(range 1-5) was 2.97. The average total score of the family support of the subjects was 38.44(minimum score 16-maximum score 47), item mean score(range 1-5) was 3.49. The average total score of the Health Locus of Control of the subjects was 38.34(minimum score 24-maximum score 49), item mean score(range 1-6) was 3.49.
2. Among characters related to the disease, variables linked with the quality of life were as follows ;
Experience of hospitalization (F=5.09, p=.0260), experience of surgery (F=5.51, p=.0207), diagnosis name(F=3.87, p=.0009), experience of chemotherapy(F=12.74, p=.0005), number of experienced symptoms(F=3.26, p=.0243).
3. There was a significant positive correlation between the family support and the quality of life(r=.3687, p=.0001). There was no relationship between the health locus of control and the quality of life.
4. By using stepwise multiple regression analysis, it was determined that the main influencing factors on the quality of life were age (16 %), family support (12 %), monthly income (? %), and gender(5 %). These four main variables explained 40 % of the variance in quality of life.
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