@article{Techapanya_Saneha_Puwarawuttipanit_Soparattanapaisarn_2022, title={Factors Predicting the Health-Related Quality of Life in Premenopausal Women with Breast Cancer after Receiving Chemotherapy}, volume={40}, url={https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ns/article/view/254741}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to study the predictive ability of menopause symptoms, health literacy, physical activity and anemia on health-related quality of life in premenopausal women with breast cancer after receiving chemotherapy.</p> <p> <strong>Design: </strong>Correlational predictive design.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study sample included 129 premenopausal women with breast cancer who were completion of chemotherapy at a super-tertiary hospital in Bangkok. Data were collected by using a demographic questionnaire, Menopause Rating Scale, Health Literacy Questionnaire, Short Form International Physical Activity Questionnaire, and Health-related quality of life questionnaire (FACT-B). All data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis.</p> <p><strong>Main findings:</strong> It was found that 39.5% of the sample had severe menopause symptoms, 69% high level of health literacy, 40.3% moderate physical activity and 47.3% anemia. A mean score of overall health-related quality of life among the sample was 113.4 (SD = 17.78). Menopause symptoms, health literacy, physical activity and anemia could account for 51 percent of the variances explained in health-related quality of life (adjusted R<sup>2 </sup>= .51, F = 27.15, p < .05). Only menopause symptoms (<img title="\beta" src="https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\beta" /> = - .66, p < .01) and health literacy (<img title="\beta" src="https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\beta" /> = .21, p < .01) could significantly predict the health-related quality of life.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions and recommendations: </strong>Nurses should assess menopause symptoms and health literacy, and take care patients with menopause symptoms as well as promote health literacy in order to improve health-related quality of life of this group of patients.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Nursing Science Journal of Thailand}, author={Techapanya, Yotaka and Saneha, Chongjit and Puwarawuttipanit, Wimolrat and Soparattanapaisarn, Nopadol}, year={2022}, month={Sep.}, pages={95–109} }