ArticleBMJ open2018
Health-related quality of life in Chinese inpatients with lung cancer treatedin large general hospitals: across-sectional study.
Article in BMJ open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Educational Guidelines on Oral Mucositis Severity and Quality of Life in Oncology Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Trial
- Quality of life and its association with anxiety, depression, and clinical factors among patients with metastatic cancer attending oncology centers in Northwest Ethiopia.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Prevalence and influencing factors of the dyadic psychological stress among patients with lung cancer and their family caregivers: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Mediating role of social support between stigma and social alienation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and network structure of depression and its association with quality of life among older stroke survivors: findings from a national survey in China.General psychiatry · 2025Article
- Social determinants of health and lung cancer surgery: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Determinants of quality of life of cancer patients at a tertiary care medical city in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The effects of different surgical approaches on the psychological status, medical coping mode and quality of life of patients with lung cancer.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Spiritual Needs of Lung Cancer Patients and Their Relation to Psychological Distress and Quality of Life.Cureus · 2021Article
- Suicidal Ideation Is Associated With Excessive Smartphone Use Among Chinese College Students.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Improving Social Support to Increase QoL in Lung Cancer Patients.Cancer management and research · 2021Review
- Relationship Between Childhood Left-Behind Experience and Quality of Life Among Chinese University Freshmen: Place of Origin Matters.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Smartphone Use and Sleep Quality in Chinese College Students: A Preliminary Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of depression in patients with lung cancer: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Observational
- Quality of life of older Chinese adults receiving primary care in Wuhan, China: a multi-center study.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of anxiety and depression in Chinese patients with lung cancer：a cross-sectional study.Cancer management and research · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveIn China, psychosocial problems of patients with cancer are under-recognised and undertreated in medical oncology practice. This study examined the health-related quality of life (QOL) in inpatients with lung cancer treated in large general hospitals and explored the demographic, clinical and psychosocial factors associated with QOL.
designCross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS AND
settingAltogether, 148 inpatients with lung cancer were consecutively recruited from two large general hospitals in Tianjin, China. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURED: QOL, pain intensity, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and social support were assessed with WHO QOL Scale Brief Version, four-point Verbal Rating Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and Social Support Rating Scale, respectively.
resultsCompared with the normative data for the Chinese general population, patients had significantly lower scores in physical (t=-25.860, p<0.001) and psychological (t=-18.225, p<0.001) QOL. Being unmarried (β=-2.471, 95% CI -4.908 to -0.034), poor economic status (β=-1.764, 95% CI -2.964 to -0.564), cancer metastasis (β=-1.328, 95% CI -2.632 to -0.024), poor performance status (β=-0.959, 95% CI -1.542 to -0.376), depression (β=-0.465, 95% CI -0.631 to -0.299), anxiety (β=-0.208, 95% CI -0.354 to -0.062) and low utilisation of social support (β=-0.344, 95% CI -0.577 to -0.111) were independently associated with poor physical QOL, while female gender (β=-1.494, 95% CI -0.649 to -2.339), less education years (β=-0.209, 95% CI -0.294 to -0.123), currently receiving chemotherapy (β=-1.536, 95% CI -3.051 to -0.021), small-cell cancer (β=-1.157, 95% CI -2.223 to -0.091), more intense pain (β=-0.535, 95% CI -0.919 to -0.151), poor performance status (β=-0.930, 95% CI -1.383 to -0.477), anxiety (β=-0.178, 95% CI -0.248 to -0.108) and inadequate subjective social support (β=-0.137, 95% CI -0.153 to -0.121) were independently associated with poor psychological QOL.
conclusionsInpatients with lung cancer treated in Chinese large general hospitals have poorer QOL than the general population. Effective prevention and management of psychosocial problems are potentially effective to improve their QOL.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.