Qualidade de vida e auto-imagem de pacientes com câncer de cabeça e pescoço

Marina Silveira e Silva, Elisa Kern de Castro, Carolina Chem

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Resumo

Head and neck cancer refers to skin tumors that affect people of all ages. Treatments for this type of disease include surgeries, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Purpose: to examine self-image and quality of life of patients who had head and neck cancer. Participants: 28 patients between 30-73 years. Instruments: Instrument for Assessing Quality of Life of the WHO - and the brief version of Evaluation Scale with Body Satisfaction. Results: Total quality of life and their subscales was positively correlated with self-image, with the exception of social relations subscale. Self-image was a significant predictor of total quality of life and physical psychological and environment dimension. Conclusion: quality of life was closely linked with self-image in these patients.

Título traduzido da contribuiçãoQuality of life and self-image in patients with head and neck cancer
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Páginas (de-até)13-23
Número de páginas11
RevistaUniversitas Psychologica
Volume11
Número de emissão1
DOIs
Estado da publicação???researchoutput.status.published??? - 2012
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Keywords

  • Head and neck cancer.
  • Quality of Life
  • Self-image

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