Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
29th European Congress of Psychiatry, Florence, İtalya, 1 - 30 Nisan 2021, cilt.64, ss.652
Introduction: Breast cancer is a serious threat to people’s health. In
addition to negative psychological disorders including depression,
anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, positive changes such
as post-traumatic growth (PTG) can be experienced.
Objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to determine the
variables related to PTG in people with breast cancer.
Methods: We searched five database (SCOPUS, Cochrane, Medline,
Science Direct, and Pubmed) starting from 1990, by guidance
of PRISMA criteria, using the keywords “breast cancer”, “post
traumatic growth”, “stress related growth”, and “benefit finding”.
Results: There were conflicting findings regarding the relationship
between PTG and following variables: sociodemographic variables
such as age, education level, marital status, disease-related variables
such as cancer stage, time since diagnosis, type of treatment. We
observed that these variables may have a low effect on PTG. In
addition, personality characteristics such as optimism, spirituality,
and hope were found to be associated with PTG. Functional or
problem-focused coping such as positive restructuring, acceptance,
and religious coping, and ruminative thoughts predict PTG as a
part of cognitive processing. Besides, social support has an important
role in experiencing PTG.
Conclusions: Psychosocial interventions for cancer patients are
increasing day by day, but the scarcity of interventions which aims
increase PTG is noteworthy. With this review, we recommend
developing intervention programs that include functional coping
strategies such as stress management, social skills training, cognitive
techniques focused on ruminative thoughts, and positive
restructuring.