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- Title
Spiritual quality of life in advanced cancer patients receiving radiation therapy.
- Authors
Piderman, Katherine M.; Johnson, Mary E.; Frost, Marlene H.; Atherton, Pamela J.; Satele, Daniel V.; Clark, Matthew M.; Lapid, Maria I.; Sloan, Jeff A.; Rummans, Teresa A.
- Abstract
Objective The aim of this randomized controlled trial for patients with advanced cancer receiving radiation therapy was to determine the effect of a multidisciplinary intervention on spiritual quality of life (QOL) at the end of the intervention (week 4) and at two follow-up time points (weeks 26 and 52). Methods One hundred thirty-one persons were randomized to either the intervention or control (forms only) groups. The intervention included six 90-min in-person sessions based on the physical, emotion, social, and spiritual domains of QOL. Three sessions included the spiritual component. Caregivers were present for four sessions, one which included a spiritual component. Ten follow-up phone calls were made to the patients in the intervention group during the 6-month follow-up period. Patients completed the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General Scale, the Linear Analog Self-Assessment which includes an assessment of spiritual QOL, and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp) at enrollment, and weeks 4, 27, and 52. Results Following the intervention, the intervention group demonstrated improved spiritual QOL on the FACIT-Sp, whereas the spiritual QOL of the control group decreased, resulting in significant mean changes between groups (total score: 1.7 vs. −2.9; p < 0.01; meaning/peace subscale: 1.0 vs. −3.5; p < 0.01; faith subscale: 3.1 vs. −1.7; p = 0.04). Conclusions The results indicate that a multidisciplinary intervention which includes a spiritual component can maintain the spiritual QOL of patients with advanced cancer during radiation therapy. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; SPIRITUAL life; RADIOTHERAPY; MEDICAL radiology; QUALITY of life
- Publication
Psycho-Oncology, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 2, p216
- ISSN
1057-9249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pon.3390