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Table 2 Correlations between duration of surgical treatment, number of adjuvant radiotherapy sessions, length of hospital stay after surgery, and perception of quality of life and health and the WHOQOL-bref questionnaire scores

From: Patient satisfaction and quality of life in breast reconstruction: assessment of outcomes of immediate, delayed, and nonreconstruction

 

WHOQOL

Physical mean (SD)

Psychological mean (SD)

Social relations mean (SD)

Environment mean (SD)

General mean (SD)

Time after mastectomy

0.063 (0.582)

−0.006 (0.96)

−0.071 (0.529)

−0.107 (0.344)

−0.031 (0.783)

Time after reconstruction

−0.066 (0.619)

−0.093 (0.479)

−0.133 (0.312)

−0.071 (0.589)

−0.094 (0.473)

Adjuvant radiotherapy sessions

0.076 (0.498)

0.078 (0.490)

0.035 (0.756)

−0.085 (0.451)

0.046 (0.684)

Hospitalization time after mastectomy

−0.293 (0.008)

−0.325 (0.003)

−0.092 (0.414)

−0.075 (0.508)

−0.259 (0.020)

Hospitalization time after reconstruction

−0.141 (0.295)

−0.301 (0.023)

0.028 (0.838)

0.074 (0.585)

−0.101 (0.456)

Perception of quality of life

0.492 (<0.001)

0.477 (<0.001)

0.357 (0.001)

0.489 (<0.001)

0.571 (<0.001)

Perception of health

0.404 (<0.001)

0.54 (<0.001)

0.256 (0.021)

0.502 (<0.001)

0.542 (<0.001)

  1. P Spearman correlation. The variables in italic had statistically significant values (p <0.05)