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 contribuição | Quality of life and self-image in patients with head and neck cancer |
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Idioma original | ???core.languages.pt_BR??? |
Páginas (de-até) | 13-23 |
Número de páginas | 11 |
Revista | Universitas Psychologica |
Volume | 11 |
Número de emissão | 1 |
DOIs | |
Estado da publicação | ???researchoutput.status.published??? - 2012 |
Publicado externamente | Sim |
Keywords
- Head and neck cancer.
- Quality of Life
- Self-image