Breast cancer patients: an overview of the relationship between meaning of life and life satisfaction

Objective: The study was planned to investigate the role of meaning in life with life satisfaction among women with breast cancer. The study further analyzed the influence of socio-personal characteristics of these women with their life satisfaction. Study Design: Cross sectional survey. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted from Sep 2015 to May 2016 on patients selected from different hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi

Material and Methods: A total of 60 patients of breast cancer were enrolled for the said research. The present study used two scales i.e., satisfaction with life scale and meaning of life questionnaires. Snow ball sampling technique was used to collect data of clinical groups from different hospitals of the Punjab

Results: To compare group differences-test analysis was computed. The results showed significant relationship between meaning of life and life satisfaction. The study also found that the low sense of identity as a whole, leads women to be dissatisfied with their lives

Conclusions: This study demonstrated that the level of meaning of life among women with breast cancer is low. Several factors like marital status and education were found to be significantly associated with the meaning in life and life satisfaction of women with breast cancer

[ effect of cardiopulmonary pump on hearing loss after cardiopulmonary bypass graft]

Coronary artery bypass graft is one of the most common surgeries in hospitals. Almost 50% of patients have complications. One of these complications is hearing loss. Coronary artery bypasses grafting patients having inclusion criteria participated. One day before surgery, One day after surgery and if patients had hearing loss, the nest week otoacoustic emission test was done. Patients were divided in to two groups: on pump and off pump bypass surgeries. Hearing loss occurred in 12%. Hearing loss in on-pump patients was 14.3% and in off-pump was 6/7% [p=0.09]. The relation of preoperative OAE test and final OAE was tested and it was significant [p<0.005]. In male patients, hearing loss in on-pump operation was 18/6% [p=0.002] and in females in on-pump operation was 7/4% and in off-pump operation was 18.2% [p=0.1]. Hearing loss occurred in 4/2% in 1500, 2000 HZ; 12./5% in 2500, 3000 HZ and 83/3% in 3500, 4000 HZ. It after coronary artery bypass graft is rather Frequents [12%] and is more common in on-pump surgery, and occurs in high frequency, hearing loss is more common in male patients