HOPE OF WOMEN UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v24i0.65400

Keywords:

Breast cancer, Hope, Psychological adaptation, Chemotherapy, Oncology.

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the levels of hope of women undergoing chemotherapy treatment and
related factors.
Method: Observational, cross-sectional, quantitative study conducted in a chemotherapy
service of a teaching hospital in northeastern Brazil from March to September 2018. For this
study, 55 women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer were interviewed. The Spiritual
Well-Being Scale, the Herth Hope Index and the Duke Religion Index were applied.
Results: Religiousness and spiritual well-being were significant predictors of hope (p = 0.024),
but the small magnitude of the effect had a low predictive value (f²=0.29), explaining 22.6%
(R²) of the variable’s behavior. Spiritual well-being was the only independent predictor variable
for hope (β = 0.439; t = 3.376; p = 0.001).
Conclusion: The main predictor variable of hope was spiritual well-being. Hope was found to
be independent of sociodemographic factors and treatment.

Author Biographies

Elton de Lima Macêdo, Universidade de Pernambuco

Residente de Enfermagem em Oncologia no Hospital Universitário Oswaldo Cruz HUOC/UPE. Recife, PE, Brasil.

Eduardo Tavares Gomes, Hospital das Clínidas da UFPE

Enfermeiro. Doutorando em Ciências do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem em Saúde do Adulto da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo PROESA – EEUSP. Mestre em Enfermagem pelo Programa Associado de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem UPE/UEPB. Enfermeiro Assistencial do Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Simone Maria Muniz da Silva Bezerra, Universidade de Pernambuco

Doutora em Ciências pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professora Adjunta da Universidade de Pernambuco.

Downloads

Published

2019-12-09

How to Cite

Macêdo, E. de L., Gomes, E. T., & Bezerra, S. M. M. da S. (2019). HOPE OF WOMEN UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER. Cogitare Enfermagem, 24. https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v24i0.65400

Issue

Vol. 24 (2019)

Section

Research

License

Cogitare Enfermagem reserves the right to make normative, orthographic, and grammatical changes to the published article to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style.

The published study is the sole responsibility of the author(s), and Cogitare Enfermagem is exclusively responsible for evaluating the manuscript as a scientific publication vehicle. Revista Cogitare Enfermagem is not responsible for any violations of Law No. 9,610/1998, the Brazilian Copyright Law.

Cogitare Enfermagem allows the author to hold the copyright of articles accepted for publication, without restrictions.

The articles published are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 - The attribution adopted by Cogitare Enfermagem is permitted:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any media or format.
  • Adapt - remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Attribution - You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do this in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor endorses it or approves of its use.
  • No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing something that the license allows.