Resilience and Coping Strategies Influencing the Quality of Life in Patients With Brain Tumor

Chiu-Ju Pan, Hui-Chun Liu, Shu-Yuan Liang, Chieh-Yu Liu, Wei-Wen Wu and Su-Fen Cheng

Clinical Nursing Research, 2019, vol. 28, issue 1, 107-124

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.

Keywords: resilience; coping; quality of life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773817714562

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