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A comparison of Portuguese and American patients with hematological malignancies: a cross‐cultural survey of health‐related quality of life
Author(s) -
Forjaz Maria João,
Guarnaccia Charles A.
Publication year - 2001
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/pon.522
Subject(s) - vitality , residence , portuguese , marital status , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , gerontology , demography , environmental health , population , philosophy , linguistics , theology , nursing , sociology
This study investigates health‐related quality of life (QoL) differences between 98 Portuguese and 109 US American outpatients with hematological malignancies. These two national groups of patients were characterized in terms of patients' QoL, and socio‐demographic and clinical variables. Differences were found for several socio‐demographic variables (race, marital and job status, urban residence, diagnosis, age, education, and household size). Portuguese patients reported better physical functioning, less bodily pain, more vitality, better social functioning, and better general QoL [as measured by Functional Living Index—Cancer (FLIC) total score] than American patients. Results were independent of demographic differences or mode of questionnaire administration. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.