Associations of self‐efficacy, social support and coping strategies with health‐related quality of life after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: A cross‐sectional study

Investigating associations between self-efficacy, social support and quality of life (HRQoL) and mediating effects of coping among bladder cancer (BC) patients treated with radical cystectomy (RC).A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2012 to December 2014 with 99 BC patients. An online survey assessed patient characteristics, HRQoL, coping strategies, self-efficacy and social support. A stepwise multiple linear regression model was used.Self-efficacy and social support were significantly associated with HRQoL. Complete mediation effects of adaptive/maladaptive coping strategies emerged for the associations between self-efficacy and social support with functional well-being (B = 0.247, 95% CI 0.119-0.374, p < 0.001; B = -0.414, 95% CI -0.526 to -0.302, p < 0.001) and total Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bladder (FACT-BI) (B = 0.779, 95% CI 0.351-1.207, p < 0.001; B = -1.969, 95% CI -2.344 to -1.594, p < 0.001). Maladaptive coping mediated the associations of self-efficacy and social support with physical well-being (B = -0.667, 95% CI -0.752 to -0.516, p < 0.001) and disease-specific symptoms (B = -0.413, 95% CI -0.521 to -0.304, p < 0.001). A partial mediation effect of adaptive coping was found for the association between self-efficacy and social well-being (B = 0.145, 95% CI 0.016-0.273, p < 0.05). Social support was significantly associated with emotional (B = 0.067, 95% CI 0.027-0.108, p < 0.001) and social well-being (B = 0.200, 95% CI 0.146-0.255, p < 0.001).Interventions should tackle self-efficacy, social support and coping strategies to improve BC patients' HRQoL.