Family Function Support and Quality of Life For Breast Cancer Survivors

Abstract

Post-treatment care and ongoing care plans for breast cancer sufferers can reduce the quality of life. Breast cancer patients who are hospitalized have negative factors, such as being away from their family and loved ones, unfamiliar hospital environment, getting diagnosis and treatment that is difficult so that the patient feels afraid of every procedure that will be given to him and makes quality his life was getting low. This study aims to identify the domains of quality of life in breast cancer patients. This study uses a type of correlation research with the sampling technique in this study using purposive sampling. The number of samples was 40 respondents in the age range 24-68 years. This study used a family function support instrument and WHO QoL BREF. Based on the results of the Fisher exact test, the four family functions showed a significant relationship to the quality of life of the study subjects with a p-value