2021
DOI: 10.4103/apjon.apjon_47_20
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Which Domains of Social Support Better Predict Quality of Life of Women with Breast Cancer? A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract: Objectives: The study aimed at investigating the specific role of social support types (SSTs) on quality of life (QoL) and its domains of women with breast cancer in Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a number of 223 women with breast cancer visiting three cancer centers of Tehran, Iran, participated from October 2014 to May 2015. Medical Outcome Study-Social Support Scale and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast Cancer were used for data gathering.… Show more

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“…In this cross-sectional study, 223 women with breast cancer were recruited from October 2014 to May 2015 via convenient sampling from three cancer centers in Tehran, Iran. Along with the previous publications ( Zamanian et al, 2015 ; Zamanian et al, 2020 ; Zamanian et al, 2021c ), the current study was derived from a Ph.D. research project conducted on the health concerns of Iranian patients with breast cancer (PS−BrC2015) and the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences has approved of it under the code TUMS.1394.6049. To be included, patients had to meet the following criteria: age ≥ 18; pathology-confirmed breast cancer diagnosis at least 1 month before recruitment; basic Farsi language skills.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…In this cross-sectional study, 223 women with breast cancer were recruited from October 2014 to May 2015 via convenient sampling from three cancer centers in Tehran, Iran. Along with the previous publications ( Zamanian et al, 2015 ; Zamanian et al, 2020 ; Zamanian et al, 2021c ), the current study was derived from a Ph.D. research project conducted on the health concerns of Iranian patients with breast cancer (PS−BrC2015) and the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences has approved of it under the code TUMS.1394.6049. To be included, patients had to meet the following criteria: age ≥ 18; pathology-confirmed breast cancer diagnosis at least 1 month before recruitment; basic Farsi language skills.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Social support is an individual’s perception of the availability of external assistance and contributes to various domains of HRQoL ( Zamanian et al, 2021c ). Sherbourne and Stewart (1991) held social support as a unidimensional construct that includes various aspects of emotional-informational support, affectionate support, tangible support, and positive social interactions.…”
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“…Those factors include socio-demographic characteristics, such as gender [ 8 ], age [ 8 , 9 ], health promoting lifestyle [ 10 ], and financial burden [ 11 ]. Additional influencing factors include psychological and clinical characteristics such as presence of pain [ 7 , 12 ], social support [ 13 , 14 ], depression and anxiety [ 15 , 16 ], and perceived self-efficacy [ 17 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Das empfundene Ausmaß der sozialen Unterstützung spielt für Brustkrebspatientinnen eine wichtige Rolle für das psychische Befinden: Mehr Unterstützung ist mit besseren Copingstrategien und Anpassung (Park et al, 2020;, weniger Distress, Angst und Depression Puigpinós-Riera et al, 2018;Seiler & Jenewein, 2019;Wondimagegnehu et al, 2019; und besserer HrQoL (Durá-Ferrandis et al, 2017;Leung et al, 2014;Ng et al, 2015;Salonen et al, 2013) assoziiert. Psychisches Befinden scheint besonders durch soziale Unterstützung in Form von positiven Interaktionen gefördert zu werden (Zamanian et al, 2021).…”
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