TY - JOUR ID - 88729 TI - Exploring the Relationships between Posttraumatic Growth, Wisdom, and Quality of Life in Older Cancer Survivors JO - Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention JA - APJCP LA - en SN - 1513-7368 AU - Yang, Seung-Kyoung AU - Ha, Yeongmi AD - Department of Nursing, Kyungnam University, Changwon, South-Korea. AD - College of Nursing and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South-Korea. Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 20 IS - 9 SP - 2667 EP - 2672 KW - Posttraumatic growth KW - wisdom KW - Quality of Life KW - Elderly KW - cancer survivor DO - 10.31557/APJCP.2019.20.9.2667 N2 - Objective: The number of older cancer survivors is steadily rising with a growing aging population, and a greatinterest in evaluating the quality of life is emerged. Although understanding how to improve the quality of life inolder cancer survivors is critical as the number of older survivors continues to grow in communities, little is knownabout empirical evidence regarding predictors of the quality of life in older cancer survivors. This study aimed toexamine relationships between posttraumatic growth, wisdom, and quality of life in older cancer survivors. Methods:A convenience sample of older cancer survivors after completing cancer treatments (n=121) participated from onepublic health center, and they filled out self-report questionnaires on measures of posttraumatic growth, wisdom, andquality of life. Results: As results of multiple regression analysis, the most significant factor on each domain of thequality of life has shown that higher levels of subjective economic status were associated with significant improvement offour domains of quality of life, and wisdom and posttraumatic growth were associated with significant improvement insocial/family well-being. Conclusion: This study highlights predictors of each domain of quality of life that subjectiveeconomic status, posttraumatic growth and wisdom significantly affected the quality of life in older cancer survivors.Findings indicate that psychological interventions need to be developed and implemented for older cancer survivorsto prevent long-term effects of cancer and to increase their quality of life. For improving their quality of life, primarycare providers or community health professionals need to develop tailored interventions, such as home-based cancersurvivorship programs. UR - https://journal.waocp.org/article_88729.html L1 - https://journal.waocp.org/article_88729_20776bbc7333257e196d1fd7ce423b6c.pdf ER -