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Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study

AIM: Stoicism has been applied to describe a wide range of behaviors in the face of disease and influences an individual’s use of coping strategies. This study tested the relationship between stoicism and social support, optimism, psychological distress, and coping strategies in patients with cancer...

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Autores principales: Gomez, David, Carmona-Bayonas, Alberto, Hernandez, Raquel, Higuera, Oliver, Rogado, Jacobo, Pacheco-Barcia, Vilma, Valero, María, Gil-Raga, Mireia, Mar Muñoz, Mª, Carrión-Galindo, Rafael, Jimenez-Fonseca, Paula, Calderon, Caterina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35901019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269712
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author Gomez, David
Carmona-Bayonas, Alberto
Hernandez, Raquel
Higuera, Oliver
Rogado, Jacobo
Pacheco-Barcia, Vilma
Valero, María
Gil-Raga, Mireia
Mar Muñoz, Mª
Carrión-Galindo, Rafael
Jimenez-Fonseca, Paula
Calderon, Caterina
author_facet Gomez, David
Carmona-Bayonas, Alberto
Hernandez, Raquel
Higuera, Oliver
Rogado, Jacobo
Pacheco-Barcia, Vilma
Valero, María
Gil-Raga, Mireia
Mar Muñoz, Mª
Carrión-Galindo, Rafael
Jimenez-Fonseca, Paula
Calderon, Caterina
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description AIM: Stoicism has been applied to describe a wide range of behaviors in the face of disease and influences an individual’s use of coping strategies. This study tested the relationship between stoicism and social support, optimism, psychological distress, and coping strategies in patients with cancer. METHOD: NEOcoping is a multicenter, cross-sectional study. Participants’ data were collected using a standardized, self-report form and LSS, MSPSS, Mini-MAC, BSI-18, and LOT-R questionnaires. Linear regression analyses were used to assess the association between stoicism and distress scores in both genders. A total of 932 individuals with non-metastatic, resected cancer were recruited. RESULTS: Males perceived a higher risk of recurrence and toxicity with adjuvant chemotherapy and obtained higher stoic attitude scores than females. Women scored higher on somatization, depression, and anxiety. Patients with high stoicism scores were older and experienced more maladaptive coping (helplessness, anxious preoccupation), and depression, while those with lower stoicism scores had greater perceived social support, optimism, and positive attitude. In both males and females, stoicism correlated negatively with perceived social support, optimism, and positive attitude, and positively with helplessness, anxious preoccupation, and depression. In men, stoicism was directly and negatively associated with social support and optimism, and positively with anxious preoccupation. In women, stoicism was positively associated. In women, stoicism was directly and negatively associated with social support and positively with age and optimism. Stoicism was directly and positively associated with helplessness. DISCUSSION: A stoic attitude was associated with lower social support, reduced optimism, and passive coping strategies (helplessness and anxious preoccupation) in this series of patients with cancer.
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spelling pubmed-93333032022-07-29 Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study Gomez, David Carmona-Bayonas, Alberto Hernandez, Raquel Higuera, Oliver Rogado, Jacobo Pacheco-Barcia, Vilma Valero, María Gil-Raga, Mireia Mar Muñoz, Mª Carrión-Galindo, Rafael Jimenez-Fonseca, Paula Calderon, Caterina PLoS One Research Article AIM: Stoicism has been applied to describe a wide range of behaviors in the face of disease and influences an individual’s use of coping strategies. This study tested the relationship between stoicism and social support, optimism, psychological distress, and coping strategies in patients with cancer. METHOD: NEOcoping is a multicenter, cross-sectional study. Participants’ data were collected using a standardized, self-report form and LSS, MSPSS, Mini-MAC, BSI-18, and LOT-R questionnaires. Linear regression analyses were used to assess the association between stoicism and distress scores in both genders. A total of 932 individuals with non-metastatic, resected cancer were recruited. RESULTS: Males perceived a higher risk of recurrence and toxicity with adjuvant chemotherapy and obtained higher stoic attitude scores than females. Women scored higher on somatization, depression, and anxiety. Patients with high stoicism scores were older and experienced more maladaptive coping (helplessness, anxious preoccupation), and depression, while those with lower stoicism scores had greater perceived social support, optimism, and positive attitude. In both males and females, stoicism correlated negatively with perceived social support, optimism, and positive attitude, and positively with helplessness, anxious preoccupation, and depression. In men, stoicism was directly and negatively associated with social support and optimism, and positively with anxious preoccupation. In women, stoicism was positively associated. In women, stoicism was directly and negatively associated with social support and positively with age and optimism. Stoicism was directly and positively associated with helplessness. DISCUSSION: A stoic attitude was associated with lower social support, reduced optimism, and passive coping strategies (helplessness and anxious preoccupation) in this series of patients with cancer. Public Library of Science 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9333303/ /pubmed/35901019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269712 Text en © 2022 Gomez et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gomez, David
Carmona-Bayonas, Alberto
Hernandez, Raquel
Higuera, Oliver
Rogado, Jacobo
Pacheco-Barcia, Vilma
Valero, María
Gil-Raga, Mireia
Mar Muñoz, Mª
Carrión-Galindo, Rafael
Jimenez-Fonseca, Paula
Calderon, Caterina
Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study
title Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study
title_full Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study
title_short Stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the NEOcoping study: Cross-sectional study
title_sort stoic attitude in patients with cancer from the neocoping study: cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35901019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269712
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