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Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) ineluctably caused social distancing and unemployment, which may bring additional health risks for patients with cancer. To investigate the association of the pandemic-related impacts with the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33692982 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.630620 |
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author | Guo, Yeye Shen, Minxue Zhang, Xu Xiao, Yi Zhao, Shuang Yin, Mingzhu Bu, Wenbo Wang, Yan Chen, Xiang Su, Juan |
author_facet | Guo, Yeye Shen, Minxue Zhang, Xu Xiao, Yi Zhao, Shuang Yin, Mingzhu Bu, Wenbo Wang, Yan Chen, Xiang Su, Juan |
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description | The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) ineluctably caused social distancing and unemployment, which may bring additional health risks for patients with cancer. To investigate the association of the pandemic-related impacts with the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients with melanoma during the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a cross-sectional study among Chinese patients with melanoma. A self-administered online questionnaire was distributed to melanoma patients through social media. Demographic and clinical data, and pandemic-related impacts (unemployment and income loss) were collected. HRQoL was determined by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and its disease-specific module (the melanoma subscale, MS). A total of 135 patients with melanoma completed the study. The mean age of the patients was 55.8 ± 14.2 years, 48.1% (65/135) were male, and 17.04% (34/135) were unemployed since the epidemic. Unemployment of the patients and their family members and income loss were significantly associated with a lower FACT-G score, while the MS score was associated with the unemployment of the patients' family members. Our findings suggested that unemployment is associated with impaired HRQoL in melanoma patients during the COVID-19 epidemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-79376272021-03-09 Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Guo, Yeye Shen, Minxue Zhang, Xu Xiao, Yi Zhao, Shuang Yin, Mingzhu Bu, Wenbo Wang, Yan Chen, Xiang Su, Juan Front Public Health Public Health The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) ineluctably caused social distancing and unemployment, which may bring additional health risks for patients with cancer. To investigate the association of the pandemic-related impacts with the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients with melanoma during the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a cross-sectional study among Chinese patients with melanoma. A self-administered online questionnaire was distributed to melanoma patients through social media. Demographic and clinical data, and pandemic-related impacts (unemployment and income loss) were collected. HRQoL was determined by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and its disease-specific module (the melanoma subscale, MS). A total of 135 patients with melanoma completed the study. The mean age of the patients was 55.8 ± 14.2 years, 48.1% (65/135) were male, and 17.04% (34/135) were unemployed since the epidemic. Unemployment of the patients and their family members and income loss were significantly associated with a lower FACT-G score, while the MS score was associated with the unemployment of the patients' family members. Our findings suggested that unemployment is associated with impaired HRQoL in melanoma patients during the COVID-19 epidemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7937627/ /pubmed/33692982 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.630620 Text en Copyright © 2021 Guo, Shen, Zhang, Xiao, Zhao, Yin, Bu, Wang, Chen and Su. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Guo, Yeye Shen, Minxue Zhang, Xu Xiao, Yi Zhao, Shuang Yin, Mingzhu Bu, Wenbo Wang, Yan Chen, Xiang Su, Juan Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | unemployment and health-related quality of life in melanoma patients during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33692982 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.630620 |
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