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    Asian Oncol Nurs. 2015 Dec;15(4):193-202. Korean.
    Published online Dec 31, 2015.
    https://doi.org/10.5388/aon.2015.15.4.193
    © 2015 Korean Oncology Nursing Society
    Original Article

    Resilience and Related Factors for Patients with Breast Cancer

    Eunmi Kim,1 Sanghee Kim,1 Sue Kim,1 and Yoonju Lee2
      • 1College of Nursing·Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
      • 2College of Nursing, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea.
    • Address reprint requests to: Kim, Sanghee. College of Nursing & Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea. Tel : +82-2-2228-3388, Fax: +82-2-392-5440, Email: sangheekim@yuhs.ac
    Received September 08, 2015; Revised December 11, 2015; Accepted December 23, 2015.

    This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

    Abstract

    Purpose

    The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing resilience in breast cancer patients.

    Methods

    The data were collected using structured questionnaires from 106 breast cancer patients who are members of a self-help group. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, a t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression in SPSS WIN version 21.0.

    Results

    Resilience was significantly negatively correlated to depression and positively correlated to hope and family support. However, resilience was not significantly correlated to anxiety. In the regression analysis, factors influencing resilience were reported as hope, religion, lymph node metastasis, surgery side, and time since surgery, which explained 34.1% of the variation.

    Conclusion

    The resilience scores of women with breast cancer were higher when depression was lower, hope was higher, and greater family support. This means that reducing depression and increasing hope and family support are necessary when developing and implementing nursing interventions. The results of this study also show the importance of hope in explaining resilience in patients with breast cancer. Therefore, nurses should focus on encouraging hope when they develop programs in order to implement more effective interventions to improve breast cancer patients' resilience.

    Keywords
    Resilience; Breast Neoplasms

    Figures

    Fig. 1
    The conceptual framework.

    Tables

    Table 1
    Differences in Resilience by Participant Characteristics (N =106)

    Table 2
    Levels of Resilience, Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Family Support in Participants (N =106)

    Table 3
    Correlations among Resilience, Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Family Support (N =106)

    Table 4
    Factors affecting Resilience (N =106)

    Notes

    This article is based on a part of the first auther's master's thesis from Yonsei University.

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    MeSH Terms
    Anxiety
    Breast Neoplasms*
    Breast*
    Depression
    Female
    Hope
    Humans
    Lymph Nodes
    Neoplasm Metastasis
    Nursing
    Self-Help Groups
    Metrics
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