Nursing research into quality of life

Padilla, Geraldine; Grant, Marcia; Ferrell, Betty

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“…Future research should also address survivors' characteristics associated with fatigue. The results of some studies provide evidence that patients with cancer experience fatigue that is different from the fatigue experienced by a "healthy" reference group [17,[58][59][60]. For instance, a small exploratory study by Glaus et al [59] compared patterns of fatigue in healthy workers and cancer patients.…”

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“…The results of some studies provide evidence that patients with cancer experience fatigue that is different from the fatigue experienced by a "healthy" reference group [17,[58][59][60]. For instance, a small exploratory study by Glaus et al [59] compared patterns of fatigue in healthy workers and cancer patients. The healthy workers started the day without tiredness, remained fit until the late afternoon and were very fatigued in the evening.…”

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“…It is possible that the instrument we used was unsuitable for measuring health-related quality of life in survivors. Although generic instruments measure health functioning across a wide variety of chronic illnesses and cancer and provide a common data base for comparing results [58], they may not identify issues unique to the cancer experience and do not contain a longer view of cancer survivorship with specific concerns and needs long term [59]. The development of a specific instrument for childhood cancer survivors may overcome this problem.…”

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“…The cultural distinctions between and within national boundaries provide an unique opportunity to examine differences in the meaning of survivorship, as well as values and behaviours, in different groups. 59 Future research efforts should also be directed at the intermediate factors of QL that have received relatively little attention in previous studies, including the role of coping and adaptation, social relationships and family variables. Considering that many survivors are functioning reasonably well and that not much difference is found between results in survivors and their peers, it would be interesting and advisable to investigate the role of denial and response-shift.…”

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“…Padilla, Grant y Ferrell (5) refieren que la calidad de vida tiene una connotación multidimensional caracterizada por el bienestar en aspectos de la vida importantes para el individuo. Abarca la interacción de la salud y el funcionamiento psicológico, espiritual, socioeconómico y familiar.…”

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Validez de constructo y confiabilidad del instrumento calidad de vida versión familiar en español

Ortíz

González

Díaz

et al. 2015

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RESUMENObjetivo: Determinar la validez de constructo y confiabilidad del instrumento calidad de vida versión familiar en español de Betty Ferrell y cols.Método: Estudio metodológico, descriptivo, de corte transversal, que incluyó caracterización sociodemográfica de 250 cuidadores familiares de personas con enfermedad crónica captados en la ciudad de Bogotá; pruebas de validez de constructo por medio de la técnica de Análisis Factorial Exploratorio y de confiabilidad determinando estabilidad, a través del cálculo de la correlación entre los totales del test y el re-test, y consistencia interna obteniendo el coeficiente alfa de Cronbach entre todos los ítems del instrumento y de manera específica para cada dimensión.Resultados: La validez de constructo del instrumento calidad de vida versión familiar en español de Betty Ferrell y cols. evidencia la existencia de cuatro factores: dimensión física, psicológica, social y espiritual. El número de factores resultante de la solución del análisis factorial exploratorio se aproximó al número de dimensiones planteados por los autores, las cargas factoriales de casi el 50% de los ítems corresponden exactamente con los ítems diseñados y planteados para medir cada dimensión. Se observa discrepancia en las dimensiones psicológica y social. Respecto a las pruebas de confiabilidad, en la evaluación de la estabilidad se encontró una correlación test-retest de 0.86, y en la de la consistencia Interna un alfa de Cronbach de 0.861 en el test y de 0.866 de re-test.Conclusiones: La escala calidad de vida versión familiar en español de Betty Ferrell y cols. reporta una validez de constructo aceptable y una alta confiabilidad para ser utilizada en el contexto colombiano. Se recomienda consolidar la validez de constructo utilizando técnicas de análisis factorial confirmatorio que permitan estimar el aporte de un ítem a una o varias dimensiones simultáneamente así como la estimación de posibles correlaciones existentes entre las dimensiones.

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Quality of Life for Family Caregivers of People with Chronic Health Problems

Canam

Acorn²

1999

Rehabilitation Nursing

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The trend toward community-based care, along with advances in medical technology, has resulted in increased numbers of individuals with complex healthcare needs being cared for at home by their families. This shift from hospital to community care places increased demands on family caregivers. Families are now providing long-term care for chronically ill people with a variety of conditions. Caregiver research has, for the most part, explored burden, stress, and depression as outcomes of caregiving. There is little research assessing the quality of life (QOL) of long-term caregivers. In the research on quality of life, the patient is most frequently the focus. With the increased demand on families as caregivers, quality of life needs to be included as a variable in studying family caregivers for chronically ill individuals. The purpose of this paper is to discuss issues in studying quality of life in family caregivers of persons with chronic conditions. Conceptualization of quality of life is explored, measurement of quality of life examined and the research on quality of life reviewed, with a focus on the quality of life of the family caregiver.

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Nursing research into quality of life

Cited by 62 publications

References 80 publications

Cured of Cancer : from childhood to adulthood, quality of survival

Cured of Cancer : from childhood to adulthood, quality of survival

Validez de constructo y confiabilidad del instrumento calidad de vida versión familiar en español

Quality of Life for Family Caregivers of People with Chronic Health Problems

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