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Unemployment and Health-Related Quality of Life in Melanoma Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.630620

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melanoma; coronavirus disease 2019; unemployment; quality of life; income loss

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [62041208, 81974478]
  2. Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2016YFC0900802]
  3. Emergency Project of Prevention and Control for COVID-19 of Central South University [502701002]
  4. Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province [2018SK2086, 2018SK2092]
  5. China Scholarship Council [201906370201]

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The outbreak of COVID-19 inevitably led to social distancing and unemployment, posing additional health risks for patients with melanoma. A study on Chinese melanoma patients found a significant association between unemployment and income loss with lower health-related quality of life, highlighting the impact of pandemic-related factors on cancer patients.
The outbreak of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) ineluctably caused social distancing and unemployment, which may bring additional health risks for patients with cancer. To investigate the association of the pandemic-related impacts with the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among patients with melanoma during the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a cross-sectional study among Chinese patients with melanoma. A self-administered online questionnaire was distributed to melanoma patients through social media. Demographic and clinical data, and pandemic-related impacts (unemployment and income loss) were collected. HRQoL was determined by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and its disease-specific module (the melanoma subscale, MS). A total of 135 patients with melanoma completed the study. The mean age of the patients was 55.8 +/- 14.2 years, 48.1% (65/135) were male, and 17.04% (34/135) were unemployed since the epidemic. Unemployment of the patients and their family members and income loss were significantly associated with a lower FACT-G score, while the MS score was associated with the unemployment of the patients' family members. Our findings suggested that unemployment is associated with impaired HRQoL in melanoma patients during the COVID-19 epidemic.

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