Analysis of the influencing factors on the quality of patients life in rural patients with gastric carcinoma using linear structural equation
Abstract：BACKGROUND: Since many factors can influence the quality of life (QOL)of the cancer patients, it is important to find out what factors may be related to the quality of life in order to improve the QOL in cancer patients.OBJECTIVE: To analyze the factors that influenee the QOL of gastric carcinoma patients living in Changle Country so as to provide scientific information for the improvernent of QOL of rural patients with gastric carcinoma.DESIGN: A retrospective study based on diagnosis was conducted.SETTING and PARTICIPANTS: Our sample consisted of 423 cases residing in Changle county and those patients were diagnosed by county-level and above hospitals to suffer from gastric carcinoma. Of the 423 patients, 355cases were male, 68 cases were female. The survival time was from half year to 15.6 years,METHODS: All of the patients in our sample were asked to answer a questionnaire reflecting the information of the disease condition, treatment and rehabilitation of the stomach cancer patients and 18 items describing the quality of life of the patients.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The scores of 18 items and the values of the variables in the questionnaire were obtained from the answered questionnaires.RESULTS: Two latent endogenous variables were drawn from 18 items describing the patient's survival quality and 11 latent exogenous variables were drawn from 26 influencing factors on the QOL. The LISREL model fitting the relationship between latent exogenous variables and latent endogenoos variables showed a good effect(Goodness-of-fit index = 0.95).
Keywords：The patients' physiological status has a remarkable effect on their psychological status and the factors influencing the quality of life include disease seriousnesssurvival timeageoperationsex and nutritional condition
Publication Date：2004-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 3368-3370 )