Real-life daily activity: the impact of misbeliefs on quality of life among cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While side-effects and health-related quality of life (QoL) are routinely assessed in clinical trials, commonly used tools do not measure patients' ability to maintain normal daily activities. QoL can be severely affected directly by the disease, the treatment side-effects and by personal and societal misconceptions promoting avoidance from activities perceived as dangerous for cancer patients. We examined practices of actively treated patients with cancer.

Methods

A questionnaire was designed, assessing daily activities (11 items) and dietary limitations (7 items) distributed between October and December 2019 (before the coronavirus pandemic) among patients treated at the Oncology Division of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.

Results

The study population c

SUBMITTER: Shachar E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9271513 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature