The life quality of patients who receiving chemotherapy treatment after mastectomy and stoma surgery

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine the quality of life of patients who treated with chemotherapy after mastectomy and stoma surgery. The research was carried out between 5th September and 30th December 2014 at Ordu State Hospital in the chemotherapy unit as a cross-sectional and descriptive study. The data was collected with questionnaire including descriptive feature and The Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36). Statistical analyses were evaluated via Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software program 15.0 for data entry and analysis. The study included 46 patients (10 men, 36 woman) and 69, 6% of them had an operation for mastectomy and 30.4% of others had an operation for stoma. After datas analysis, it was found that 63.1% of patients are between the years 40–59, all of them had least one child and 58.7% of them have the education of primary school or literate. 50.0% of the patients that they have undergone stoma surgery over the past 0–6 months. Also 45.5% of the patients that they have undergone mastectomy surgery over the past 0–6 months. The scores for physical function, mental health, general health perception, fatigue, social function, pain, physical role function and emotional role function 20.15, 17.92, 15.77, 14.6, 6.15, 5.21, 5.04 and 4.15 respectively. Of patients who receving chemotherapy treatment after mastectomy and stoma surgery were life quality average 89.21±18.49.