| Summary: | 碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 合作經濟學所 === 98 === According to the annual reports of Department of Health of Executive Yuan TAIWAN and referred international researches for breast cancer survivors, breast cancer has become the most popular female cancer since 2000. Its incidence rate rises dramatically; coincidently the self-organizing ability of breast cancer patients is the strongest over all kinds of cancer survivor groups. Therefore, the issue of breast cancer patients won the biggest social attention and social support through non-profit self-help groups with the effect of changing their quality of life (QOL). However, the results of some international researches show that the relationship between social support and QOL of breast cancer survivors are much more controversial than agreeable, thus, it is necessary to continue the research in Taiwanese cases.
As research object, "Taichung Kaihuai Association" has contributed to mutual assistance among breast cancer patients actively in recent years and has got great achievement. In this sense, this research, based on theories of subjective quality of life, social support and social capital and on qualitative-oriented case-study, is in the intention to explore the impact of sources, types, intensity of social support on the subjective quality of life of breast cancer patients. Comparing their QOL before their join in patient groups to after that, we could make a conclusion describing the affect, identifying which roles the patient groups have been played within patients’ stakeholders. In other words, which kinds of social capital as social support embedded in patient groups is specifically dominant. This research attempts to achieve the following results:
1. To describe the social support of the breast cancer patient groups.
2. To explore the effect social support made on subjective QOL of breast cancer patients.
3. To understand which roles the breast cancer patient groups play and which function they may deliver in their stakeholders.
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