A Comparative Study on Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients Treated with Curative and Palliative Care

AIM: Psychological distress is common among patients affected by cancer. In this study, we examined the relationship between resilience, social support, and hopelessness among cancer patients treated with curative and palliative care. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sixty cancer patients in the age range of 1...

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Autores principales: Somasundaram, Ravindran Ottilingam, Devamani, Kiran A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27162423
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.179606
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description AIM: Psychological distress is common among patients affected by cancer. In this study, we examined the relationship between resilience, social support, and hopelessness among cancer patients treated with curative and palliative care. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sixty cancer patients in the age range of 18–65 years were randomly selected and divided into two groups based on their treatment intent namely, curative care (n = 30) and palliative care (n = 30). Both groups were assessed by the following instruments: Bharathiar University Resilience Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and Beck Hopelessness Scale. RESULTS: Resilience was significantly associated with less hopelessness and higher levels of perceived social support. CONCLUSION: Cancer patients are found to be resilient, and the role of social support and hopelessness on promoting resilience cannot be ignored.
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spelling pubmed-48435512016-05-09 A Comparative Study on Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients Treated with Curative and Palliative Care Somasundaram, Ravindran Ottilingam Devamani, Kiran A Indian J Palliat Care Original Article AIM: Psychological distress is common among patients affected by cancer. In this study, we examined the relationship between resilience, social support, and hopelessness among cancer patients treated with curative and palliative care. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sixty cancer patients in the age range of 18–65 years were randomly selected and divided into two groups based on their treatment intent namely, curative care (n = 30) and palliative care (n = 30). Both groups were assessed by the following instruments: Bharathiar University Resilience Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and Beck Hopelessness Scale. RESULTS: Resilience was significantly associated with less hopelessness and higher levels of perceived social support. CONCLUSION: Cancer patients are found to be resilient, and the role of social support and hopelessness on promoting resilience cannot be ignored. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4843551/ /pubmed/27162423 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.179606 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full A Comparative Study on Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients Treated with Curative and Palliative Care
title_fullStr A Comparative Study on Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients Treated with Curative and Palliative Care
title_full_unstemmed A Comparative Study on Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients Treated with Curative and Palliative Care
title_short A Comparative Study on Resilience, Perceived Social Support and Hopelessness Among Cancer Patients Treated with Curative and Palliative Care
title_sort comparative study on resilience, perceived social support and hopelessness among cancer patients treated with curative and palliative care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843551/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.179606
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