Objective To investigate the family-dependence status in patients with tumor, and analyze the related factors of family dependence. Methods The self-made family-dependence scale was distributed to 432 patients with tumor to asses their family dependence status. Results The mean score of family-dependence was 40±5.8. A total of 198 cases (45.8%) were family-dependent, including 52 mild cases, 98 moderate cases, and 48 severe cases. The logistic regression analyses showed that sex (OR=3.873, P=0.022), age (OR=2.378, P=0.035), and personality type (OR=1.079, P=0.028) were the related factors of family-dependence. Conclusion More attention should be paid to patients with tumor about their family-dependence. After being instructed, the family members should use proper emotional expression method to provide family support to the patients with tumor. The female patients, older patients, and patients with dependent personality should be encouraged to improve their self-care ability to avoid family-dependence as possible as they can.
Breast cancer patients and their spouses face a series of problems in their sexual life, which together lead to the decline of the sexual life quality of the couple, endangering the physical and mental health and the marital relationship of the patients and their spouses. Therefore, this article reviews the current situation, assessment tools, and influencing factors of sexual life quality of breast cancer patients and their spouses, and introduces the foreign intervention measures of sexual life quality based on the dual perspective of husband and wife, in order to promote the development of research on sexual life of breast cancer patients and their spouses in China, and provide references for the construction of a localized intervention program to improve the sexual life quality.
