Activity limitations and participation restrictions among cancer survivors in National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Bangladesh

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