Purpose This study was conducted so as to determine a hypothetical model concerning factors affecting breast cancer patients' resilience.
Methods: Data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire from 212 patients with breast cancer between July 25 and August 24, 2020. The data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 20.0 and AMOS 21.0.
Results: The model supported 7 of the 11 presented hypotheses for all participants. Test results indicated that “hope”, “uncertainty”, and “symptom experience” all directly affected participants' resilience, and that “uncertainty” also affected participants', “depression” and “hope”. “Spiritual well-being” affected participants' sense of “hope” and “symptom experience”. Of these variables, “hope” had the strongest direct influence on resilience across all participants. “Uncertainty” was found to directly and indirectly affect participants, whereas “spiritual well-being” indirectly affected the resilience of all participants. “Uncertainty” and “spiritual well-being” indirectly affected the resilience of all participants.
Conclusion: These results suggest that management strategies to enhance breast cancer patients' resilience should address patients' uncertainty, spiritual well-being, hope, and symptom experience.
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Methods: A quasi-experimental design of nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest was used. The subjects of this study were 60 coronary heart disease patients hospitalized in the heart treatment center for Video educational Program (VP)-PCI (30 in the experimental group, 30 in the control group) in a general hospital in Gyeonggido Province. Data were collected from May 10 to November 30, 2019. Subjects of the experimental group were provided common nursing care and viewed a video education program before the PCI. The control group was provided common nursing care before the PCI. The data were analyzed via the χ2 test, independent t-test, and repeated measured ANOVA through the SPSS 23.0 program.
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