TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictors of health-related quality of life among Hispanic and non-Hispanic White breast cancer survivors in New Jersey
AU - Almatkyzy, Gulaiim
AU - Mojica, Cynthia M.
AU - Stroup, Antoinette M.
AU - Llanos, Adana A.M.
AU - O’Malley, Denalee
AU - Xu, Baichen
AU - Tsui, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
The IMPACT study was supported by the Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences Team Science Initiative. The New Jersey State Cancer Registry is funded by National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program Contract No. HHSN261201300021I, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) No. 5U58DP003931-02, the State of New Jersey and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. We thank David Rotter and Grace Lu-Yao for their early contributions to this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Purpose: To examine predictors of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) breast cancer (BC) survivors. Design: Cross-sectional study using survey data. Participants: Women diagnosed with BC at ages 21-79 years, between 2012-2014, recruited from the New Jersey State Cancer Registry. Methods: HRQoL was assessed using the Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy (FACT-G) instrument. Descriptive statistics compared Hispanics and NHWs, and multivariate regression analyses identified predictors of HRQoL. Results: HRQoL was significantly higher scores among NHW (85.7 ± 18.5) than Hispanics (79.4 ± 20.1) (p < 0.05). In multivariate analyses, comorbidities (β: −13.3, 95%CI: −20.6, −5.92), late-stage diagnosis (β: −5.67, 95%CI: −10.7, −0.62), lower income (β: −13.9, 95%CI: −19.8, −7.97) and younger age at diagnosis were associated with lower HRQoL. Conclusion: Socio-demographic and clinic characteristics were significant predictors of HRQoL among diverse BC survivors. Implications for Psychosocial Oncology: Supportive psychosocial care interventions tailored to the needs of young, low-income BC survivors with comorbidities are needed.
AB - Purpose: To examine predictors of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) breast cancer (BC) survivors. Design: Cross-sectional study using survey data. Participants: Women diagnosed with BC at ages 21-79 years, between 2012-2014, recruited from the New Jersey State Cancer Registry. Methods: HRQoL was assessed using the Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy (FACT-G) instrument. Descriptive statistics compared Hispanics and NHWs, and multivariate regression analyses identified predictors of HRQoL. Results: HRQoL was significantly higher scores among NHW (85.7 ± 18.5) than Hispanics (79.4 ± 20.1) (p < 0.05). In multivariate analyses, comorbidities (β: −13.3, 95%CI: −20.6, −5.92), late-stage diagnosis (β: −5.67, 95%CI: −10.7, −0.62), lower income (β: −13.9, 95%CI: −19.8, −7.97) and younger age at diagnosis were associated with lower HRQoL. Conclusion: Socio-demographic and clinic characteristics were significant predictors of HRQoL among diverse BC survivors. Implications for Psychosocial Oncology: Supportive psychosocial care interventions tailored to the needs of young, low-income BC survivors with comorbidities are needed.
KW - breast
KW - minorities
KW - quality of life
KW - quantitative
KW - survivorship
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U2 - 10.1080/07347332.2020.1844844
DO - 10.1080/07347332.2020.1844844
M3 - Article
C2 - 33198603
AN - SCOPUS:85096126525
SN - 0734-7332
VL - 39
SP - 595
EP - 612
JO - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
JF - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
IS - 5
ER -