Financial Toxicity, Hope, and Satisfaction With Life in Patients Receiving Ambulatory Cancer Care
In this multisite, cross-sectional study, greater financial toxicity burden was associated with lower life satisfaction; individuals' hopefulness and perceived social support levels-representing dimensions of psychosocial resilience-statistically mediated this association. These results support an approach that would embed strategies to strengthen psychosocial resilience factors, in combination with current financial assistance, to help mitigate the downstream impacts of cancer-related financial toxicity.
Authors
- Kathrin Milbury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2605-3592)
- Christina Checka
- David B. Feldman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8351-4370)
- Edna Paredes
- Chi-Fang Wu
- Hilary Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7596-0100)
- Grace L. Smith
- Cynthia Anderson
- Ethan B. Ludmir
- Michael E. Roth
- Benjamin W. Corn
- Jodi Kagihara
- James C. Tucker
- Marin Xavier
Institutions
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Chulalongkorn University (TH)
- Santa Clara University (US)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Baptist Cancer Center (US)
- Queen's Medical Center (US)
- Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center (US)
- Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2026-02-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.57328
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 99.81