Positive personal resources and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: resilience, optimism, hope, courage, trait mindfulness, and self-efficacy in breast cancer patients and survivors.
Support Care Cancer
; 30(8): 7005-7014, 2022 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
This study aims to understand the association between positive personal resources (i.e., optimism, hope, courage, trait mindfulness, and self-efficacy), resilience, and psychological distress (i.e., anxiety, depression, stress) in women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that personal positive resources can directly influence resilience, which in turn prevented psychological distress.METHODS:
The research sample consisted of 409 Italian women (49% patients, 51% survivors) who were administered a questionnaire to assess positive resources, resiliency, and distress. structural equation model (SEM) analysis was carried out to confirm the hypothetical-theoretical model.RESULTS:
Personal positive resources had a direct positive effect on resilience, which prevented from distress. These results were observed across cancer patients and survivors, and regardless the level of direct exposure to COVID-19.CONCLUSIONS:
In both patients and survivors, the relationships between positive personal resources, resilience, and psychological distress is strong enough to be not influenced by the level of exposure to COVID-19 and despite COVID-19 pandemic caused the disruption of active treatment plans and delays in routine check-ups. IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS Implications of this study suggest the urgency to screen positive resources and to identify women with lower resilience and a potentially higher susceptibility to develop psychological distress. For these women, our findings suggest the implementation of psychological interventions that build resilience.Palabras clave
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Bases de datos:
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Métodos Terapéuticos y Terapias MTCI:
Terapias_mente_y_cuerpo
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Meditacion
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias de la Mama
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Resiliencia Psicológica
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Atención Plena
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Coraje
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Distrés Psicológico
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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En
Revista:
Support Care Cancer
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia