This study is part of a longitudinal research with oncologic patients and aims to analyze their quality of life and its relationship with coping. To explore and describe this aspects is important to give an integrative and interdisciplinary view about oncologic illness. The sample was gathered in an hospital of Mar del Plata, Argentina. A Quality of Life Questionnaire, a Coping Responses Inventory and a semistructured interview were administered to collect information about the proposed variables, demographic and psychological characteristics. The results show the significance of relationship between coping with illness and the perceived quality of life, mainly between avoidance cognitive strategies and deterioration in the most of the dimension of the quality of life. Results and hypothesis proposed are discussed.
Quality of life; Coping; Psychooncology; Cancer
