The aim of this study is to assess the impact of psychological adjustment to cancer on health-related quality of life in oncology patients. 100 patients of the Oncology Centre in Warsaw were studied. The type of attitudes and strategies related to mental adjustment to the disease were measured with the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale - Mini-MAC. The level of quality of life on the functional dimensions of quality of life and the level of overall health-related quality of life were measured using the Quality of Life Questionnaire - QLQ-C30. The results of the relationship between cancer attitudes and coping strategies and health-related quality of life indicated that: 1) the higher the patient manifests higher levels of fighting attitudes, positive reappraisal and constructive coping strategies, the better the patient functions physically, emotionally, cognitively, in social relationships and the higher the patient achieves overall quality of life; 2) the higher the patient manifests higher levels of anxiety preoccupation, helplessness-hopelessness and destructive coping strategies, the worse he or she functions physically, emotionally, cognitively, in social relationships and the lower the overall quality of life. The study confirms the key thesis of this paper assuming an impact of psychological adjustment to illness on health-related quality of life.
Psychological adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in oncology patients
14 December 2022