암환자의 불안, 스트레스, 재발 우려가 삶의 질에 미치는 영향과 사회적 지지의 조절효과

The main purpose of this study was to analyze how emotional factors such as anxiety, stress, and concern for the cancer recurrence influence the life quality of patients who are suffering any neoplasm, and to reach conclusions to improve the life quality of the patients by investigating the controlling effects of social supports for the patients in relations with the emotional factors. For this study, 150 subjects who were undergone for cancer treatments as outpatients or inpatients in a general hospital located in Changwon city were enrolled for self survey with structured questionnaires. Among them, survey data of 148(98.7%) subjects were analyzed. Main results were obtained from multiple regression analysis. That is, when the controlling effect of social supports in relation with the emotional factors such as anxiety, stress, and concern for cancer recurrence of cancer patients were analyzed, emotional factors which were considered as independent variables had negative influence on life quality. However, social supports which were controlling variables had significantly positive influence on life quality. Among the social supports, only family support variable showed a significant controlling effect in relation between the emotional factors such as anxiety, stress, and concern for cancer recurrence and life quality. The results of this study suggest that the efforts to reduce concerns on the emotional factors are required to improve life quality of cancer patients. Additionally, this study implies that the family support is the most important factor to improve life quality of the patients.