Optimism and social support as contributing factors to spirituality in Cancer patients

Ciria‐Suarez, Laura; Calderón, Caterina; Férnández-Montes, Ana; Antoñanzas, Mónica; Hernández, R; Rogado, Jacobo; Pacheo-Barcia, Vilma; Ansensio-Martínez, Elena; Palacín-Lois, María; Jiménez-Fonseca, Paula

doi:10.1007/s00520-020-05954-4

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“…Previous research has corroborated the relationship between meaning/ peace and faith and coping strategies, anxiety, and depression, noting that optimism and social support foster enhanced spiritual well-being [35,36]. Similarly, the influence of spirituality/ religiosity on the different coping strategies has been appraised in patients with cancer.…”

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Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

Velasco-Durantez

Cruz-Castellanos

Hernández

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BackgroundCancer negatively affects patients’ physical and mental health. This work sought to analyze the sociodemographic and clinical variables that modulate psychological distress in individuals with resected vs unresectable cancer before and after receiving systemic antineoplastic treatment, and to evaluate how different coping strategies and spiritual well-being influence psychological distress in these subjects.MethodsObservational, prospective, consecutive study performed in 15 hospitals in Spain. The study consists of two cohorts: patients with resected locally and locally advanced cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy (NEOcoping study, 2016 and 2018) and those with unresectable locally advanced and advanced cancer, eligible for systemic treatment (NEOetic study, 2020 and 2021). Participants completed the following scales: BSI-18 (psychological distress) at baseline and after antineoplastic treatment; MINI-MAC (coping), and FACIT-sp (spirituality), before initiating systemic treatment.ResultsFourteen hundred and fifty patients were recruited; 941 had resected cancer and 509 had advanced cancer. The advanced cancer sample included more males, older, less educated, and more unemployed individuals. Before starting systemic treatment, the advanced, unresectable disease group suffered more psychological distress than those with resected cancer (66.9 vs. 63.7, p=0.001) and used more coping strategies, especially positive attitude (79.1 vs. 75.6, p=0.001) and cognitive avoidance (64.3 vs. 53.6, p=0.001). Participants with resected cancer displayed greater spiritual well-being (36.5 vs 33.2, p=0.001). After receiving systemic treatment, psychological distress decreased in cases of advanced cancer and increased in resected cancer, albeit still higher in subjects with advanced cancer, particularly anxiety (61.4 vs 60.9) and depression (61.0 vs 60.6), (p=0.001 in both cases).ConclusionPatients with advanced cancer exhibit greater psychological distress, use more coping strategies, and have less spiritual well-being, but their psychological distress improves with antineoplastic treatment.

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Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

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Cruz-Castellanos

Hernández

et al. 2022

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“…For some patients, their faith in themselves, others, and God constitute the meaning, or purpose, of their lives [30]. Positive effects of optimism and social support also show a positive correlation with spiritual coping [31].…”

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The quality and meaning of life of cancer patients in remission: socio-psychological aspects

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The sense of the meaning of life is a subjectively felt, positive mental state. Suffering in chronic illness intensifies in a human being the sense of isolation and gives rise to emotions with that an individual often cannot cope. Such experiences are characteristic of the process of cancer remission. The sense of coherence strengthens the sense of coping with disease, which increases prospects of recovery. The article presents the results of the authors' research (103 respondents) on the quality and meaning of life of cancer patients in remission: socio-psychological aspects, indicators of the categories of «meaning of life», «responsibility», «consistency», and the latter is dominant at the stage of cancer remission in the studied cohorts. The survey was conducted on the basis of the methodology developed by the authors using the «Goal in Life» test (PIL) by J. K. Crumbaugh and J.J. Smith. Maholicka, as well as «The sense of coherence» by A. Antonovsky (SOC-29). The study showed that the group under survey had a fairly high level of indicators of the categories «meaning of life», «responsibility», «consistency», which did not depend on when the respondents were diagnosed with cancer, as well as the fact that the studied indicators reached higher values in women than in men. Interpersonal factors «meaning of life» and «responsibility» were identified as dominant in the study of the quality and meaning of life in relation to other socio-psychological factors.

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“…Some scholars have indicated that social support plays a critical part in cancer patients' spiritual well-being. For example, Ciria-Suarez et al (16) tested the correlation between social support and spiritual health in cancer patients and found that social support was significantly correlated with spiritual wellbeing. Although social support may predict spiritual well-being, the mechanism behind this pathway has not been thoroughly examined.…”

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Social Support and Spiritual Well-Being of Patients With Esophageal Cancer Aged Over 50 Years: The Mediating Role of Rumination

Xue

Pan

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundSpiritual well-being plays an important role in helping patients cope with disease. Previous studies have investigated the association between social support and spiritual well-being, whereas few studies have explored the relationship in patients with esophageal cancer (EC), and the mechanisms behind this pathway have not been thoroughly examined.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the relationship between social support and spiritual well-being of Chinese patients with EC aged over 50 years and to analyze whether the relationship was mediated by rumination.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted with 197 EC patients. Participants completed the general information questionnaire, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Spiritual Scale, the Chinese Event Related Rumination Inventory, and the Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS).ResultsResults demonstrated that social support of patients with EC aged over 50 years was positively correlated with spiritual well-being and deliberate rumination and negatively correlated with intrusive rumination; spiritual well-being was positively associated with deliberate rumination and negatively correlated with intrusive rumination. The effect of social support on spiritual well-being was partially mediated by deliberate rumination and intrusive rumination.ConclusionsThe findings suggest that interventions directed toward enhancing social support and deliberate rumination and reducing the level of intrusive rumination may help patients with EC aged over 50 years improve spiritual well-being.

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Optimism and social support as contributing factors to spirituality in Cancer patients

Cited by 29 publications

References 45 publications

Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

Assessment of psychological distress, coping, and spirituality in patients with resected, non-metastatic vs unresectable advanced cancer. Data from the NEOcoping and NEOetic_SEOM studies

The quality and meaning of life of cancer patients in remission: socio-psychological aspects

Social Support and Spiritual Well-Being of Patients With Esophageal Cancer Aged Over 50 Years: The Mediating Role of Rumination

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