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KMID : 1143820130090020128
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Anxiety and Mood
2013 Volume.9 No. 2 p.128 ~ p.134
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Pilot Study of Measuring Daily Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients Through Mobile Application
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Youn So-Young
Lee Jong-Won
Jung Kyung Hae
Kim Jeong-Eun
Lee Jae-Ho
Lee Gun-A
Ahn Sei-Hyun
Shin Yong-Wook
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Abstract
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Objective : As treatments for breast cancer require long period of time, the patients need continuous monitoring and management of their health related quality of life. The purpose of this preliminary study is to explore the utility of monitoring quality of life using a mobile phone based application, which was developed to enable the patients to report daily quality of life more efficiently.
Methods : Department of psychiatry, breast cancer center and U-health team of Asan Medical Center collaborated in developing a mobile application titled ’DugunDugun’. Through the application, patients with breast cancer receiving neo-adjuvant chemotherapy could report on various questions about their daily quality of life. We extracted and explored the daily basis of the data of sleep duration, number of awake, sleep satisfaction, mood and anxiety from nine patients who reported on the questionnaire for more than a month.
Results : The longitudinal data collected using our mobile application well represented the characteristics of individual sleep patterns and daily emotional changes. Most of the patients showed high daily variations in the scores of their quality of life while their averaged scores were similar among patients. The patient with highest daily variations in the subjective sleep quality and daily emotional change had highest score corresponding to moderate depression in Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).
Conclusion : The results suggest that mobile application could be a useful tool for monitoring and collecting the daily quality of life in the patients with breast cancer. We
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KEYWORD
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Breast cancer, Health related quality of life, Mobile application, Longitudinal data
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