Factores sociodemográficos, médico-clínicos y psicológicos que explican la adaptación a la enfermedad en mujeres con cáncer de mama

Breast cancer is recognized as a health problem, which causes an impact on the lives of people who suffer from it. This study sought to discriminate socio-demographic, medical-clinics and psychological variables that explain the adaptation to the disease in women with breast cancer. Descriptive-explanatory type of cross-sectional study, Date were recollected from 116 participants with breast cancer. The instruments for gathering date were ad hoc demographic and medical-clinics questionnaire data, Quality of Life by Font, was applied to obtain the secondary measure of the disease adaptation index, Coping Strategies Scale Revised (CSS-R), Medical Outcomes Study- Social Support Survey (MOS), Resilience Scale of Wagnild and Young, Life orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD). The results showed significant diference among patients by provenance, age, seeking social support, emotional avoidance coping, seeking professional support, autonomy, anxiety and depression, were the only ones related to the adaptation to the disease (p <. 05). The explanatory model of regression indicated that the summation of socio-demographic variables, medical-clinics and psychological has the capacity to explain a 62.4% of the variance in adaptation illness in the sample. The findings found with respect to variables regarding age and provenance are contradictory to other studies probably related to cultural and sociopolitical characteristics of the sample. The development of coping strategies is related to the ability to adapt to the disease, decreased levels of anxiety and depression related to the disease as an adverse situation

• Autores: Simancas Fernández, Marlen Raquel
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de San Buenaventura
• Repositorio: Repositorio USB
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/7600
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10819/7600
• Palabra clave: Adaptación a la enfermedad; Afrontamiento; Apoyo social; Resiliencia; Optimismo; Adaptation illness; Coping; Social support; Resilience; Optimism; Cancer; Enfermedades crónicas; Mujeres; Estudio de caso; Estrategias terapéuticas; Apoyo social (psicología)
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia