A Pilot Study about Recurrence of Cancer： Impact ofPsychosocial Factors on Patients＇ Adjustment

• 作者: Yenkamala Mina Ananda
• 来源期刊: 健康科学：英文版
• 学科: 生物学
• 关键词: RECURRENCE of cancer CATEGORIES of disease adjustment PSYCHOSOCIAL factors quality of life.
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（8）
• 页码范围: 370-379
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: Q

摘要

The need to prevent cancer leads the authors to propose three innovative courses of cancer as categories of disease. Theobjectives of the research are to study the impact of different factors on adaptation to the recurrence of cancer and to assess the qualityof life, the anxiety as a state and the depression as a state and the evolution of the disease on a period of three months. During thislongitudinal and prospective study, the author met 32 subjects after announcing the recurrence of their cancer, and saw again 21 of them,three months later. In two times of the study, the author made fill out several questionnaires concerning various variables. The mainresults allow showing that the majority of the subjects did not present new recurrence of cancer and that the use of the Fighting spiritstrategy is representative of them. The author＇s linear regressions and the author＇s comparisons of averages allowed the authors severalrelations about to different categories of disease. Supporting therapies and management programs for stress would be beneficial for thepatients who have recurrence of their cancer.