Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, cardiovascular, MS, etc.
Mahnaz Moghanloo; Pegah Amiriaram
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Objective: Psychological hardiness, death anxiety, and coping strategies may differ between the two groups of patients with cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. Method: This study employs a descriptive, causal-comparative design. Subjects of this study included two groups of women with breast ...
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Objective: Psychological hardiness, death anxiety, and coping strategies may differ between the two groups of patients with cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. Method: This study employs a descriptive, causal-comparative design. Subjects of this study included two groups of women with breast cancer and cardiovascular disease: 60 patients (30 cardiovascular and 30 breast cancer). Ahvaz Psychological Hardiness Scale, Collet-Lester Fear of Death Scale, and Lazarus Coping Strategies Questionnaire were used to assess the study's three variables.Results: MANOVA results showed a significant difference in psychological hardiness and death anxiety between the two patient groups. Women with cardiovascular disease had higher hardness (F=4/84, P=0.3) and lower death anxiety (F=4/71, P=0.3) than women with breast cancer. Women with breast cancer used emotion-focused strategies more than those with cardiovascular disease, while women with cardiovascular disease used problem-focused coping strategies (F=4/42, P=0.4). Conclusion: The type of chronic disease can affect the role of positive psychological factors in chronic diseases. Women with breast cancer have more stress and anxiety about death. They use ineffective strategies to cope with the stress.
Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, cardiovascular, MS, etc.
Elahe Aslami; Masoumeh Izadi; Akram Malekzadeh
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Objective: Despite significant antiemetic advances, almost 50 % of treated cancer patients still experience nausea and vomiting. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of avoidant coping in the relationships between psychological well-being and chemotherapy-induced delayed nausea ...
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Objective: Despite significant antiemetic advances, almost 50 % of treated cancer patients still experience nausea and vomiting. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of avoidant coping in the relationships between psychological well-being and chemotherapy-induced delayed nausea in women with breast cancer in Shiraz.Method: The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study consists of women with breast cancer in Shiraz with an average age of 51 to 56 years. In this research, a non-random and voluntary sampling method was used; thus, 211 female patients with breast cancer treated by chemotherapy voluntarily completed the relevant questionnaires, which included psychological well-being questionnaire (Ryff, 1989), chemotherapy-induced delayed nausea questionnaire (Rhodes & McDaniel, 1999), and coping style questionnaire (Endler & Parker, 1990). The data were analyzed by AMOS software.Results: Research findings showed a negative and significant relationship between psychological well-being and avoidant coping style, and a positive and significant relationship between avoidant coping style and delayed nausea. The Sobel test confirmed the mediating role of avoidant coping style in the relationship between psychological well-being and delayed nausea. Therefore, it can be concluded that there was a relationship between psychological well-being and delayed nausea, with the mediation of avoidant coping style. Also, psychological well-being had an indirect effect on delayed nausea.Conclusion: Chemotherapy-induced delayed nausea can be reduced by improving coping skills and strategies and the psychological well-being of women with breast cancer.
Marzieh Mahmoudi; Shahla Dinavizadeh
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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the integrated approach of meaning therapy and hopetherapy on tolerance of ambiguity, alexithymia, and psychological hardiness of women with breast cancer in Dezful City.Method: The statistical population of this study consisted of all women ...
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Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the integrated approach of meaning therapy and hopetherapy on tolerance of ambiguity, alexithymia, and psychological hardiness of women with breast cancer in Dezful City.Method: The statistical population of this study consisted of all women with breast cancer in Dezful in 2021, from whom30 people were randomly selected and assigned to experimental and control groups. Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Taylor,1986), Ambiguity Tolerance Scale, and Hardiness Questionnaire (Kobasa et al.,1982) were administered to both groups.Then the experimental group was subjected to group therapy of the integrated approach of meaning therapy and hopetherapy. The number of therapy sessions was eight 90-minute sessions, and after the end of the training course, bothexperimental and control groups completed the research questionnaires again. After collecting data, multivariate andunivariate analyses of variance were used to analyze data via SPSS software.Results: The results of the data analysis confirmed the effectiveness of this integrated approach on tolerance of ambiguity,alexithymia, and psychological hardiness (p≤ 0/001). Also, the results showed the effect of this integrated approachon the dimensions of alexithymia (difficulty in recognizing emotions, difficulty in describing feelings, and extrovertthinking) and the dimensions of psychological hardiness (commitment, control, and struggle).Conclusion: The findings of this study could lead to positive consequences of the integrated approach of meaningtherapy and hope therapy in women with breast cancer.
amin rafiepoor; Majid Saffarinia; Nasrin Hosseini
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Objective: The present study determined the fit of hope model based on spiritual health, body image, family support, and health locus of control mediated by social comparison in patients with postoperative breast cancer.
Method: The sample of the study included 400 women selected using the purposive ...
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Objective: The present study determined the fit of hope model based on spiritual health, body image, family support, and health locus of control mediated by social comparison in patients with postoperative breast cancer.
Method: The sample of the study included 400 women selected using the purposive sampling method from patients with breast cancer who after surgery referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran in the spring and summer of 2021. Data collection tools included Gibbons and Buunk's Social Comparison Orientation Scale (1993), Khodapnahi et al.'s Social Support Questionnaire (2009), Schneider Hope Scale (1991), Paloutzian and Ellison's Spiritual Well-Being Scale (1982), Cash, Winstead, and Janda's Body Image Questionnaire (1985), and Wallston et al.'s multidimensional Health Locus of control scales (1978).
Results: The hope model based on spiritual health, body image, family support, and health locus of control mediated by social comparison in postoperative breast cancer patients had a good fit. Also, spiritual health (r = 0.48), body image (r = 0.46), family support (r = 0.37), and health locus of control (r = 0.23) had a direct correlation and indirect effect on the variable of hope mediated by social comparisons.
Conclusion: In order to increase the hope as the inner force needed to fight breast cancer, we can improve the quality of spiritual health, positive body image, family support, source of health control, and social comparison.
zahra salarrad; lida leilabadi; nahid Nafissi; adis Kraskian Mujembari
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on anxiety and quality of life in women with breast cancer.
Method: A quasi-experimental design was used to collect pre-test, post-test and follow-up data (three months after) from treatment and control groups. ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on anxiety and quality of life in women with breast cancer.
Method: A quasi-experimental design was used to collect pre-test, post-test and follow-up data (three months after) from treatment and control groups. The sample consisted of 30 women with breast cancer in Tehran who had a high score in anxiety after screening. They were selected based on purposive sampling and randomly placed in experimental and control groups of size 15. The experimental group received 12 sessions (50 minutes) of emotion-focused therapy (Greenberg, 2010). The control group did not receive an intervention. Data were collected using Beck Anxiety Inventory and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast Cancer (FACT-B) in three stages: pre-test, post-test, and follow up, and analyzed using mixed variance analysis.
Findings: Results showed significant within and between subject differences (P<0.01) on measures of anxiety and quality of life. Emotion-focused therapy significantly reduced anxiety and increased quality of life in the treatment group relative to the control group. Moreover, post-test and follow-up levels of anxiety and quality of life differed significantly from pre-test levels, but not from each other.
Conclusion: Emotion-focused therapy targeting emotional processing and expression improved [d1] regulation of clients' emotions and can be used as an appropriate intervention method to reduce anxiety and increase quality of life in women with breast cancer.
