Abstract:
Cancer is major public health problem in the world and 6th leading cause of death in
Bangladesh. Cancer survivors possibly have the treatment to eliminate the malignancy
that have medical and psychosocial late effects. Activity limitations and participation
restrictions have been noticed after cancer treatments and these create problems in
everyday activities and hamper the involvement in activities. The aim of the study is to
explore activity limitation and participation restriction of daily activities among cancer
survivors in National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Bangladesh.
A cross sectional study design was used in the study. 120 respondents were selected by
purposive sampling based on inclusion criteria. Data was collected by World Health
Orgranisation Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) scored 0–100; a
high score indicates greater activity limitations and participation restrictions). Data was
analyzed through SPSS, analyzing descriptive and bivariate analysis.
Among 120 respondents, 54.2% participants were hospitalized where 57.5% were male
and 42.5% were female while keeping ratio of 1.5:1. 36.7% of the respondents were
aged between 48-62 years. 31.7% were illiterate and 58.3% of the respondents were
married. The majority of people were aged and they are unemployed because of aging
factor. Age (p <.001) was the strongest significant contributing factor followed by
educational status (p= .000) for activity limitations and participation restrictions among
cancer survivors.
This study would indicate that age and educational status are the key contributions in
limiting the activity and participation among cancer survivors
Description:
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Occupational therapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh