Research Article
Evaluation of Quality of Life and Care Needs of Turkish Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Table 1
Demographic and treatment-related characteristics of patients who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (
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| Variables | | |
| Age | Mean ± sd 44.99 ± 13.93 (range: 20–69) |
| Gender | | | Male | 54 | 54 | Female | 46 | 46 | Age group | | | 20–29 | 16 | 16 | 30–39 | 21 | 21 | 40–49 | 19 | 19 | 50–59 | 28 | 28 | 60–69 | 16 | 16 | Marital status | | | Married | 70 | 70 | Single | 30 | 30 | Profession | | | Not working currently | 24 | 24 | Housewife | 23 | 23 | Clerk | 14 | 14 | Self-employed | 14 | 14 | Retired | 14 | 14 | Worker | 11 | 11 | Types of family | | | Elementary family | 73 | 73 | Traditional, large family | 18 | 18 | Broken family | 9 | 9 | History of chronic disease | | | No | 80 | 80 | Yes (diabetes, etc.) | 20 | 20 | Perceived health status | | | “Bad” (0–3 score) | 42 | 42 | “Moderate” (4–6 score) | 46 | 46 | “Good” (7–10 score) | 12 | 12 | Frequency of medical checkups | | | In case of presence of any symptom or problems | 29 | 29 | According to physician’s recommendations | 24 | 24 | No regular medical checkups | 18 | 18 | Once in six months | 15 | 15 | Once in three months | 10 | 10 | Once in a year | 4 | 4 | Type of transplantation | | | Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation | 71 | 71 | Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation | 29 | 29 | Indications for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation | | | Acute myeloid leukemia | 26 | 26 | Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 22 | 22 | Hodgkin’s disease | 11 | 11 | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 11 | 11 | Chronic myeloid leukemia | 6 | 6 | Dysmyelopoietic syndrome | 5 | 5 | Severe immunodeficiencies | 5 | 5 | Autoimmune cytopenias | 4 | 4 | Multiple myeloma | 1 | 1 | Light chain deposition disease | 1 | 1 | Other disorders (bone marrow aplasia, etc.) | 8 | 8 | Current treatment | | | Acute-phase treatment following transplantation | 59 | 59 | Outpatient follow-up | 29 | 29 | Treatment of transplantation-related complications | 12 | 12 | History of hospitalization after transplantation | | | No | 62 | 62 | Yes (infection, chronic graft-versus-host disease, etc.) | 38 | 38 |
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