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.
