Fear of Recurrence in Gynecological Cancer Survivors
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Hung, Yu-Ju
Abstract
Gynecologic cancers, such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer and endometrial cancer, have longer survival time as compared to other cancer survivors. For those cancer survivors, fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is a common problem that keep annoying them, and that could give severe impact on their quality of life. Related researches about FCR after treatment have much more limited in the population of gynecologic cancer. Thus, the aims of this study are focus on off-treatment gynecologic cancer survivors to (1) explore fear of recurrence; (2) explore physical symptoms; (3) identify related factors (demographic, diagnosis, off-treatment duration, symptoms posttraumatic growth (PTG) to FCR.
This is a cross-sectional research. 136 off-treatment gynecologic cancer survivors were collected at the Gynecologic Outpatient Department of a medical center in North Taiwan. Descriptive statistics analysis, Spearman’s rank correlation, ANOVA, and stepwise regressions were used in static. Around half patients fear of cancer recurrence since diagnosis for several years. Fatigue, cancer-related newspaper or report, and medical exams were the most influential item which triggered FCR, further more impacted their mood and the schedule in future. However, most patients used positively thinking as a coping. Age and off-treatment duration had negative correlated with FCR. Education, symptoms, and PTG had positive correlated. Otherwise, marriage, work, diagnosis, and staging did not have significant difference on FCR.
The result of this research can provide into clinical gynecologic cancer survivors’ care plan, in order to reduce their FOR, and become reference to the study in the future.
Subjects
婦科癌症
癌症存活者
治療結束後
害怕癌症復發
創傷後成長
SDGs
Type
thesis
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