Rustøen T
Department of Public and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway.
Cancer Nurs. 1995 Oct;18(5):355-61.
During the past years, the number of people diagnosed with cancer has increased. Cancer can be a threat to life itself, as well as to the individual's perception of the quality of life. The question of what contributes a clinically significant change or difference in perceived quality of life remains unanswered. Hope is frequently referred to as important for coping with a disease such as cancer. Hope enables people to cope with difficult and stressful situations and suffering. Nevertheless, hope is seldom stressed in definitions of the quality of life for cancer patients and discusses the relationship between hope and quality of life, and hope can be regarded as a coping strategy. From existing theory, hope can be seen as a variable positively contributes to the experience of quality of life. Future research should empirically explore to what extent hope contributes to the adaptive process that maintains the quality of life at an acceptable level despite having cancer.
在过去几年中，被诊断出患有癌症的人数有所增加。癌症不仅会对生命本身构成威胁，还会影响个人对生活质量的认知。对于在感知生活质量方面产生临床显著变化或差异的因素，这个问题仍然没有答案。希望常常被认为对于应对诸如癌症这样的疾病很重要。希望使人们能够应对困难和压力重重的情况以及痛苦。然而，在癌症患者生活质量的定义中，希望很少受到强调，并且关于希望与生活质量之间的关系也鲜有探讨，而希望可被视为一种应对策略。从现有的理论来看，希望可被视为一个对生活质量体验有积极贡献的变量。未来的研究应该通过实证探索希望在多大程度上有助于适应性过程，即在患有癌症的情况下仍能将生活质量维持在可接受水平。
