A descriptive study to assess to the quality of life among oncology patients in a selected hospital in a view to develop information booklet

Abstract

Cancer is an unregulated growth of immature cells; these cells divide and grow in uncontrolled manner which invades the distal organs through invasion, lymphatic channel or blood stream. The present study aims to a descriptive study to assess the quality of life among oncology patients in a view to develop information booklet. A descriptive research design was conducted among 50 oncology patients. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the samples. Structured knowledge questionnaire was to assess the effectiveness of information booklet regarding quality of life among oncology patients. The present study to attempt to assess the quality of life among oncology patients and found that most of them 29(58%) had below average quality of life and 21(42%) had average quality of life.