Influence of different degrees of pain on quality of life in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2009.07.004
- VernacularTitle:不同疼痛强度对晚期胃肠道癌症患者生活质量的影响
- Author:
Lian-Xue ZHENG
1
;
Qing-Xin WANG
Author Information
1. 山西医科大学
- Keywords:
Gastrointestinal neoplasms;
Pain;
Quality of life;
QuestionnairesDOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2009.07.004
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2009;15(7):613-615
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To study the influence of different degrees of pain on the quality of life (QOL) in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer. Methods The degrees of pain were grouped into four levels according to the WHO standard. The QOL of 200 advanced gastrointestinal cancer patients in hospital was assessed by EORTC QLQ-C30. Results There were 56 cases with no pain, 101 cases with mild pain, 34 cases with moderate pain and 9 cases with severe pain. The QOL of advanced gastrointestinal cancer patients is poorer. With the increasing degrees of pain, the total score of QOL in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer decreased graduately from(46.354±13.194) to (17.593±14.699). The analysis of variance on total quality of life among differem degrees of pain showed that there was no significant difference between no pain and mild pain in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer (P>0.05). There were significant differences between no pain and moderate pain (P<0.05), between no pain and severe pain (P<0.05), between mild pain and moderate pain (P<0.05), between mild pain and moderate pain (P<0.05), between moderate pain and severe pain (P<0.01). Conclusions Different degrees of pain had different influences on the total quality of life in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer. The total score of QOL is negatively correlated with different degrees of pain. It should pay more attention to care and support the advanced gastrointestinal cancer patients and seek active measures to improve their QOL.
