Study on the status of fear of cancer recurrence and its correlation with quality of life in patients with bladder cancer / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To investigate the current status of fear of cancer recurrence in bladder cancer patients, and to explore the correlation between fear of recurrence and quality of life.@*Methods@#A total of 96 bladder cancer patients were recruited by convenience sampling method from April 2017 to July 2017. They were investigated through general information questionnaire, Chinese version of Fear of Progression Questionnaire Short Form and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bladder cancer form respectively.@*Results@#The total score of fears of recurrence was 28.76±10.33, the total score of quality of life was 123.66±20.63. A total of 28 patients had a dysfunctional level of fears of recurrence (total score ≥34), the incidence was 29.2% (28/96). There were significant differences in the total scores of fears of recurrence at different ages, fears of recurrence were not related to another sociodemographic factors (gender, educational attainment and income) or disease, treatment related factors. The total scores of fears of recurrence and the total score of quality of life showed a high degree of negative correlation (r=-0.726, P < 0.01), the quality of life in physical, social and family, emotional, functional well being were negatively correlated with fears of recurrence (r=-0.841--0.592, P < 0.01).@*Conclusions@#Bladder cancer patients have a higher incidence of fears of recurrence and had an impact on quality of life from the physical, psychological and social domains, nurses should perceive the fears of recurrence of patients as soon as possible and give corresponding intervention measures to improve the quality of life of bladder cancer patients.