Simone G Kjeld, Lau C Thygesen, Dina Danielsen, Marie P Jensen, Rikke F Krølner, Charlotta Pisinger, Susan Andersen
Do school-based smoking preventive interventions have unintended effects? Post hoc analysis of the Focus cluster randomised controlled trial
BMJ open
breast cancer remains leading cause unintended death among indian women cancer treatmentinduced pain fatigue nauseavomiting body image sexual problems could affect patient psychosocial wellbeing quality life qol study aims determine qol psychosocial wellbeing among women breast cancer crosssectional survey completed 244 women breast cancer tertiary level teaching hospital european organisation research treatment cancer qol questionnaire c30 breast module qlqbr23 hospital anxiety depression scale hads used measure qol psychological wellbeing respectively appropriate descriptive inferential statistics applied compute results total number women breast cancer interviewed 244 mean age 4506 standard deviation 1117 years mean global health score 7097 1563 per qlqc30 scale physical functioning scored highest 7054 2200 role functioning reported lowest 4945 3615 mean score qlqc30 symptoms scale appetite loss 4509 3509 worst reported symptom followed nausea vomiting 3497 3839 br23 scale body image said 6842 2228 higher score domains experience armrelated problems 4380 2606 frequently reported symptom women per hads scale 246 361 women moderate anxiety depression respectively mean hads score 1439 582 findings predictors individual patient remained earlier published literature women breast cancer overall good qol poor psychosocial wellbeing however using holistic approach including identifying psychological problems time management signifies need studied population