Resilience and Coping Strategies Influencing the Quality of Life in Patients With Brain Tumor
Journal
Clinical Nursing Research
Journal Volume
28
Journal Volume
28
Journal Issue
1
Journal Issue
1
Pages
107-124
Start Page
107
End Page
124
ISSN
1054-7738
Date Issued
2019-01-01
Author(s)
Abstract
The study purpose was to evaluate how much of the variance in quality of life (QOL) among Taiwanese patients with brain tumor could be accounted for by resilience and coping strategy. This cross-sectional study included 95 patients who had undergone a treatment of operations or chemotherapy or radiotherapy relevant to brain tumor after at least 1 month and completed the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QOL Questionnaire–Brain Cancer Module (EORTC QLQ-BN20), Resilience Scale (RS), and Ways of Coping Checklist–Revised (WCC-R). There was a significant negative correlation between resilience and future uncertainty QOL and motor dysfunction QOL. In addition, there was a significant positive correlation between the emotion-focused coping and future uncertainty QOL, as well as a significant negative correlation between problem-focused coping and motor dysfunction QOL. Resilience accounted for 4.8% and the emotion-focused coping accounted for 10.20% of the variance in separately predicting the future uncertainty QOL. This study highlights the potential importance of resilience and coping strategies in patients’ QOL, which is relevant to brain tumor treatment. ? The Author(s) 2017.
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Other Subjects
adult; aged; brain tumor; coping behavior; cross-sectional study; female; human; male; middle aged; multimodality cancer therapy; psychological resilience; psychology; quality of life; questionnaire; Taiwan; Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Aged; Brain Neoplasms; Combined Modality Therapy; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Quality of Life; Resilience, Psychological; Surveys and Questionnaires; Taiwan
Type
journal article