Coping with a possible breast cancer diagnosis: demographic factors and social support

Drageset, Sigrunn; Lindstrøm, Torill Christine

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03495.x

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“…Our results indicated that patients after breast cancer diagnosis used several coping strategies in agreement with the Lazarus and Folkman's model [29], which showed that breast cancer patients used various coping strategies after diagnosis in response to stress. Previous studies have demonstrated that some common coping strategies used by breast cancer patients were positive cognitive restructuring, wishful thinking, emotional expression, disease acceptance, increased religious practice, family and seeking social support [29][30][31] Our results seem to be consistent with those of other studies, which found coping strategies changed over time [24,31,32]. Another important finding was that wishful thinking was the least commonly used strategy 6 months after the diagnosis.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Breast Cancer Coping Strategies after Diagnosis: A Six-month Follow-up

Sajadian¹,

RajiLahiji²,

Motaharinasab³

et al. 2017

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Introduction: Breast cancer is a tragic experience that accompanies stressful situations for patients. Adjustment with breast cancer has a significant effect on decreasing stress and increasing the patients› quality of life. Methods: In a prospective cross-sectional study, breast cancer patients› experiences were evaluated at Breast Cancer Research Center (BCRC), Motamed Cancer Institut (MCI), Tehran, Iran. To evaluate coping strategies in breast cancer patients, a modified Ways of Coping-cancer Version (WOC-CA) questionnaire was used. A written informed consent was obtained from the patients. Results: From a total of 187 breast cancer patients participated in this study, 177 cases followed up for 6 months later. The mean age of the patients was 47.3 ± 9.6 years. Eighty-seven percent of the patients were married, 91% of the subjects had middle and high education and most of them (83%) were housewife. Seven coping strategies were used by the patients after diagnosis and 6 months later. The most commonly used coping strategies after diagnosis included «seeking for social support», «spirituality», and «positive cognitive restructuring» and the least used coping strategy was «detachment». The most frequently used strategies 6 months after the diagnosis were «seeking for social support», «spirituality», «positive cognitive restructuring», and «making changes» and the least commonly used ones included «wishful thinking», and «keeping feelings to self-coping strategies». Conclusions: It seems that clinicians should provide enough information about the treatment and survival before the surgery. The patients› concerns about the way of adjustment with the disease, especially religious thinking and advices about the way of coping with breast cancer should be considered.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Breast Cancer Coping Strategies after Diagnosis: A Six-month Follow-up

Sajadian¹,

RajiLahiji²,

Motaharinasab³

et al. 2017

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“…An analysis of the total social support and sub-dimension scores of the participants according to their education level reveals that there is a statistically significant difference between education level and total scores and social support friends sub-dimension scores. Studies show that receiving education, by increasing social networks such as friendship or work friendship, affects social support positively (Drageset and Lindstrøm, 2005). Findings of the study conducted by Rustoen and Wiklund (2000) correspond to the findings of the present study in that they found cancer patients with low education level had higher hopelessness scores.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Social Support and Hopelessness in Patients with Breast Cancer

Öztunç

Yeşil²,

Paydaş³

et al. 2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Anxiety is mainly related to uncertainty about the diagnosis, side-effects of chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment, lack of social or personal control, progressive physical deterioration, and thoughts of near death (3). Studies performed have reported different levels of anxiety in patients with various types of cancer (5)(6)(7)(8)(9). Patients who are depressed may also have physical symptoms which are difficult to palliate and which may improve as their depression is appropriately treated (10).…”

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confidence: 99%