“…Due to the diagnosis of breast cancer, women experience intense stress; their lives are negatively affected; and they may perceive this disease as destruction (Taleghani et al, 2006). The literature findings also show that, from the moment they learn about their disease, women cannot accept the disease (Çömez & Karayurt, 2016;Hajian et al, 2017;Dsouza, et al, 2018;Lie et al, 2018); they feel hopeless (İnan et al, 2016) and sorry for being diagnosed (Tunç, 2014;İnan et al, 2016;Hammoudehet al, 2017;Lam et al, 2018), like they are near death (ALmegewly et al, 2019;Ghaemi et al, 2019); they perceive their body negatively (Landmark & Wahl, 2002); their quality of life decreases (Yeter et al, 2009); they can experience emotional distress, problems in family and social relationships (Babacan Gümüş, 2006), anxiety, and depression (İnan et al, 2016;Hammoudeh et al, 2017;Dsouza et al, 2018); and, they can perceive the disease as a threat to female identity (Özkan & Alçalar, 2009). Thus, all the adaptation skills of women who have to struggle with all these negative physical and psychological effects brought on by the disease are shaken, which leads them to review their whole life and make new arrangements to readapt to this stressful situation (Moadel et al, 1999).…”