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Hematological cancer patients’ quality of life: self versus intimate or non‐intimate confidant reports
Author(s) -
Forjaz Maria João,
Guarnaccia Charles A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1611(199911/12)8:6<546::aid-pon410>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - spouse , dyad , psychology , quality of life (healthcare) , cancer , mental health , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , sociology , anthropology
Self reports of 49 outpatients with hematological cancers and matched dyad confidant reports about the patient, collected at a cancer treatment center in Lisbon, Portugal, were compared on the SF‐36 quality of life (QOL) measure. These comparisons contrasted self reports and confidant reports of the 33 patients with an accompanying spouse/partner intimate confidant, and of the 16 patients with an accompanying non‐intimate confidant. Intimate confidants gave lower SF‐36 QOL ratings of patients’ Social Functioning and Mental Health than those patients gave for themselves ( p <0.05). Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.