Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

A descriptive study which was utilized as an assessment approach, and was conducted from the 12 of September 2018 to 1St of November 2018 in order to assess the quality of life of the brain tumor patients. A purposive (non probability) sample of (82) brain tumor patients was selected from radiation and nuclear medicine hospital in Baghdad. The findings of the study proved that the demographic characteristics of the brain tumor patients, age, gender, level of education, marital status, type of work, had significant correlation with the quality of life of these patients. The socioeconomic characteristics of the brain tumor patients, income, and residency had no significant effect on the QOL of these patients. The findings also indicated that medical information for the brain tumor patients had a significant correlation with medical diagnosis and surgical treatment with their QOL. The findings also revealed that the assessment of brain tumor patients QOL had different significant effect through the relative sufficient from the social interaction domain (RS=85), level of independence (RS=82.5), psychological (RS=81.2), physical, (RS=67.2) and finally spiritual domains (RS=58.2).The sub domains of pain and discomfort, recreation & leisure had been highly affected by the brain tumors of these patients after surgery.