Volume 20, Issue 3
Psychological Predictable Variables in the Quality of Life of Patients with Breast Cancer
Abstract
The aim of the investigation was to know the degree of relation and the predictive capacity that the psychological variables, have to the quality of life in patients with breast cancer. 50 women in different phases of treatment participated. The Life Quality Inventory and Health (InCaViSa), the Coping Strategies Scale MOOS, the Resiliency Scale SV-RES, and the Multidimensional Scale of Religiousness/Spirituality were applied. A positive and significant relation between the quality of life with the coping and the resiliency was confirmed. The coping style by logical analysis and fortress predicted the quiality of life. The conclusion is that the coping and the resiliency included in intervention programs can increase the quality of life in patients with breast cancer.
Keywords
quality of life related to the health, clinical and pscychological variables, breast cancer