Factors Associated With Post-Traumatic Growth, Quality of Life, and Spiritual Well-Being in Outpatients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation: A Pilot Study
Shane Sinclair, PhD; Reanne Booker, BScN, MN; Tak Fung, MSc, PhD; Shelley Raffin-Bouchal, RN, PhD; Bert Enns, MTS; Kate Beamer, MA; and Naree Ager, RN, MA
ONF
10.1188/16.ONF.772-780
Description
Purpose/Objectives: To examine the relationships between spiritual, religious, and sociodemographic factors and post-traumatic growth, quality of life, and spiritual well-being in outpatients undergoing bone marrow and/or stem cell transplantation (BMSCT).
Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory.
Setting: Outpatient bone marrow transplantation clinic at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sample: 100 patients (21 pre-BMSCT and 79 post-BMSCT) accrued consecutively via non-probability sampling.