Self-regulatory fatigue, quality of life, health behaviors, and coping in patients with hematologic malignancies.

BackgroundSelf-regulatory fatigue may play an important role in a complex medical illness.PurposeExamine associations between self-regulatory fatigue, quality of life, and health behaviors in patients pre- (N = 213) and 1-year post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT; N = 140). Associations between self-regulatory fatigue and coping strategies pre-HSCT were also examined.MethodPre- and 1-year post-HSCT data collection. Hierarchical linear regression modeling.ResultsHigher self-regulatory fatigue pre-HSCT associated with lower overall, physical, social, emotional, and functional quality of life pre- (p's ConclusionThis is the first study to show self-regulatory fatigue pre-HSCT relating to decreased quality of life and health behaviors, and predicting changes in these variables 1-year post-HSCT.