Diagnosis of cancer is not a death sentence: Examining posttraumatic growth and its associated factors in cancer patients

<p>Personal Growth and Associated Factors Among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in China: A Cross-Sectional Study</p>

“…Personal growth was associated with many demographic variables, including age, 16 sex, 17,18 marital status, 16,19 educational level, 7,20 and economical status. 21,22 Furthermore, a positive correlation was found between social support and personal growth.…”

Posttraumatic Growth and Coping Strategies Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer: Do Approach Coping and Avoidant Coping Predict Posttraumatic Growth Over Time?

“…Hope is associated with positive beliefs and attitudes about posttraumatic worldviews in relation to the self, others, and the surrounding world. Greater hope facilitates cognitive reappraisal, allowing HNC patients to rethink the discrepancies between their pre-trauma and post-trauma worldviews, incorporate new trauma-related information, and form a new posttraumatic worldview of the self, others, and the surrounding world via accommodation, therefore facilitating the PTG development among cancer survivors ( Leong Abdullah et al, 2019 ). The planning coping strategy and pathway component of hope share similarities (the perceived ability to generate ways and paths to achieve a goal-set).…”

“…As for the association between socio-demographic characteristics and PTG in cancer patients, gender was reported to be associated with PTG, wherein females tend to exhibit higher degree of PTG than males ( Shand et al, 2015 ; Sharp et al, 2018 ; Leong Abdullah et al, 2019 ). Similar finding was also reported among HNC patients ( Holtmaat et al, 2017 ) and the finding of our study further strengthened the association between female cancer patients and higher degree of PTG.…”

“…Conversely, greater hope is negatively associated with depression, anxiety, and psychological distress ( Lai et al, 2003 ; Yang et al, 2014 ). In the context of Malaysian cancer patients, hope is the most significant associated factor which predicts PTG ( Leong Abdullah et al, 2019 ).…”

Multicentre prospective cohort study of unmet supportive care needs among patients with breast cancer throughout their cancer treatment trajectory in Penang: a PenBCNeeds Study protocol

“…38 PTG has been shown to be associated with spousal support and coping mechanisms, such as positive reframing and religious coping in patients with cancer. 39 To the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies to date which have investigated the association between PTG and unmet needs in patients with cancer. It is also not known whether PTG and unmet needs exhibit a bidirectional association in patients with cancer.…”