Education and Training Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
Faculty of Health Science, Nursing Department, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Psychooncology. 2018 Sep;27(9):2214-2219. doi: 10.1002/pon.4798. Epub 2018 Jul 11.
Social support may play a role in effective stress management and make a positive contribution to the health of women with breast cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the ways of coping with stress and levels of perceived social support of women with breast cancer, as well as the associated factors.
The descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 100 women with breast cancer at a training and research hospital in Turkey. Data were collected using an information form including sociodemographic and disease characteristics, the Scale of Ways of Coping with Stress, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support.
Effective ways of coping with stress were found to be significantly lower in women who were primary school graduates and who did not undergo surgery (P < .05). The women's levels of effective coping with stress decreased with increasing age, and as the score of perceived social support from family and total score of perceived social support increased, so did the levels of effective coping with stress (P < .05). It was determined that social support and age significantly predicted effective stress management (P < .05).
Social support given to women with breast cancer is a key reference point in effective stress management, and increased age also has an important effect on women's ability to cope with stress.
社会支持可能在有效应对压力方面发挥作用，并对乳腺癌女性的健康产生积极影响。本研究旨在确定乳腺癌女性应对压力的方式和感知社会支持的水平，以及相关因素。
本研究为描述性和横断面研究，在土耳其的一家培训和研究医院中纳入了 100 名乳腺癌女性。使用包括社会人口统计学和疾病特征、应对压力方式量表以及多维感知社会支持量表在内的信息表收集数据。
发现小学毕业和未接受手术的女性应对压力的有效方式显著较低（P<.05）。女性有效应对压力的水平随着年龄的增长而降低，随着家庭感知社会支持评分和总感知社会支持评分的增加，有效应对压力的水平也随之升高（P<.05）。社会支持和年龄显著预测了有效压力管理（P<.05）。
给予乳腺癌女性的社会支持是有效压力管理的关键参考点，年龄的增长对女性应对压力的能力也有重要影响。
