✦ LIBER ✦
Hematological cancer patients’ quality of life: self versus intimate or non-intimate confidant reports
✍ Scribed by Maria João Forjaz; Charles A. Guarnaccia
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9249
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✦ Synopsis
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).