The impact of overweight and obese on quality of life among Malay breast and gynecology cancer survivors from two hospital in Kuala Lumpur
Overweight and obesity are factors that contribute to increase risk of non-communicable diseases and cancer recurrence. Therefore, a study was conducted to identify the effects of body mass index (BMI) towards quality of life among breast (BrCa) and grnecologr (GynCa) cancer survivors. A cross-se...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | en |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/733/1/FH03-FSK-17-09173.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/733/ |
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| Summary: | Overweight and obesity are factors that contribute to increase risk of non-communicable
diseases and cancer recurrence. Therefore, a study was conducted to identify the effects of
body mass index (BMI) towards quality of life among breast (BrCa) and grnecologr (GynCa)
cancer survivors. A cross-sectional study using purposive sampiing method was conducted
among 101 Malay BrCa(63.4oh) and GynCa(36.6%), was at stage II cancer (41.2%) and
recruited from Outpatient Clinics of Hospital Kuala Lumpur and Hospital Canselor Tuanku
Muhriz. Their mean age were 51.1 t 8.3 years and had completed treatment for 4.2 +
3.4 years. Physical activity level was assessed using IPAQ POO2). A general questionnaire
measuring quality of life (QoL) for cancer EORTC QLQ C3O and specific questionnaires
related to types of cancers (QLQ BR 23, QLQ OV23, QLQ EN24, QLQ CX24) were used.
Results showed that mean body weight and mean BMI of subjects for both types of cancers
were 66.2 t 15.6 kgand 28.0 I 5.4kglrn2 (p>0.05) respectively. BMI status indicated that
more than half of subjects were in the category of overweight (31.4%) and obese (34.3%).
Similar sitting time (p>0.05) ald low level of physical activity (p>0.05) were observed among
BrCa (7 4.6ok) and GynCa (7 8.8%) subjects. The main barrier in performing physical activity
amongst both types of cancer subjects were fatigue due to cancer treatments. Global health
QoL (QLQ 30) score showed BrCa and GynCa subjects had good mean score (TOIIOO).
Subjects experienced similar functional and symptom problems for all scales of QLQ C-30
(p>0.05). No significant difference was seen in all categories of BMI for all QoL scales. In
conclusion cancer survivors of all categories of BMI had similar effects on the QoL scales.
He4ce, the development of educationa-l module can be adopted for all categories of BMI with
focus on Malay socio-culture. |
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