Quality of working life and related factors in patients with breast cancer returned to work after surgery
Objective:To explore the quality of working life and its related factors in patients with breast canc-er returned to work after surgery.Methods:A total of 316 patients with breast cancer who had returned to work af-ter surgery were selected,and they were investigated with the General information questionnaire,Quality of Working Life Questionnaire for Cancer Survivors(QWLQ-CS),Breast Cancer Survivors Resilience Scale(BCRS)and Strat-egies Used by People to Promote Health(SUPPH).Multivariate linear regression analysis was used to analyze the related factors of quality of working life.Results:Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the QWLQ-CS score was positively correlated with education level,per capita monthly income of family,work pattern,return to work time,personal protection and social protection score of BCRS,and positive attitude scores of SUPPH(β=1.05,1.23,2.26,0.69,0.95,1.00,0.13),while negatively correlated with the complications(β=-3.83).Con-clusion:The quality of working life for patients with breast cancer after surgery needs to be improved after they re-turn to work,psychological resilience and self-efficacy are positively correlated with quality of working life.
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