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Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Nursing

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of the Requirements for the Degree

Master

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Science in Nursing

Major

in

Adult

Health Nursing

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HOPE AND IIEALTH.RELATED _QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIANTS WITH CANCER TINDERGOING ADJUVANT THERAPY

Precious Jean

M.

Marquezo

RN ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to to describe and correlate the level of hope and health-related quality

of life

of patients

with

cancer undergoing adjuvant therapy.

It

also examined the relationship between domains and subscales of the aforementioned variables through Pedistin's

r.

Data were collected from 92 respondents residing

within

the

Municipality

of Porac, Pampanga. Results revealed that over a

half

of the respondents (53.26%) have high

HRQoL

scores (mean of 68.5)

in

the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire. The overall level

of

hope was 33.32, which was generally acceptable, 66.30%

of

which

were considered to have high levels of hope based on the Herth Hope Index. Domains of HRQoL namely physical

functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning and social functioning were all positively correlated

with

hope subscales specifically: temporality and future,

readiness and expectancy and interconnectedness at varying strengths.

KEYWORDSz

Cancer, Hope, Health-Related Quality af

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HRQoL, EORTC

8L8-C30,

^Herth Hope Index, Pamparcga, Philippines

Cancer constitutes a public heaith concem

in

its course

of

development. In the last decades,

it

has been converted to an evident universal problem thus, acquiring its broader dimension Q.{icollusi,

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Studies by the

World

Health Organization

in

as early as

2005, reveal an incremental predisposition to this disease. Approximately 6

million

new cases

in

developed countries and 9.3

million

cases

in

developing countries are expected for the year

of2A20.

According to the Philippine Cancer Society (2010), the projected number of new cases

in

the Philippines

will

be about 82, 468 on both sexes, 39, 012 among malss and 43 _,

456 among females. About 51, 808 cancer deaths on both sexes and 27

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