Investigation the Quality of Life and its Relation with Clinical and Demographic Characteristics in Women with Breast Cancer Under Chemotherapy

Background: this study was performed to examine quality of life’sdimensions and its relationship with some clinical and demographiccharacteristics on women with breast cancer under chemotherapy referredto the oncology hospital, isfahan university of medical sciences, iran.methods: this cross sectional study was conducted among 330a descriptive?analytic one breast cancer patients with simple samplingmethodology. data collection instrument included a questionnairecontains 2 parts (clinical and demographic characteristics informationand version 2.0 of the sf?36 questionnaire (the international version).the data were analyzed with 99% confidence by carried out using spss18with using descriptive and analytic statistics.results: the majority of subjects’ quality of life was moderate (53.93%).there was a statistically significant relationship between quality of lifeamong breast cancer patients with chemotherapy sessions (p < 0.05, df =4,?2 = 16.37). one way analysis of variance (anova) suggested theabsence of any significant relationship between quality of life with maritalstatus (f = 0.21; p = 0.92) and employment status (f = 0.26; p = 0.77).also, spearman test showed the absence of any significant relationshipbetween quality of life with age (p = 0.60), and the elapsed durationfrom diagnosis (p = 0.68), however spearman test showed significantrelationship between quality of life and education status (p = 0.002, r= ?0.84).conclusion: this study showed a direct correlation with regard toresults of this study, there was a direct correlation between the numberof chemotherapy sessions and patients quality of life. the attitude ofthe population toward chemotherapy is usually inhibiting and negative,so patients, students and nurses should be trained about chemotherapyefficacy to improve their attitude about chemotherapy, which in turnwould lead to improvement of the patients’ quality of life.