KMID : 1035120140140030146
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Asian Oncology Nursing 2014 Volume.14 No. 3 p.146 ~ p.154
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Relationships among Distress, Family Support, and Health Promotion Behavior in Breast Cancer Survivors
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Jeong Kyeong-Sook
Heo Je-Eun Tae Young-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to investigate relationships among distress, family support, and health promotion behavior in breast cancer survivors. The research design was a descriptive study.
Methods: Data were collected through three structured questionnaires: the ¡¯Distress¡¯ by Distress management version 1 (National Comprehensive Cancer Network, NCCN), ¡¯Family support¡¯ developed by Cobb, and Health promotion behavior developed by Walker, Sechrist and Pender. The subjects were 213 breast cancer survivors from two general hospitals in B metropolitan city from July. 15 to August 15 2013. The data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0, specifically descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, and Pearson¡¯s correlation coefficients were used.
Results: The mean score of distress was 3.91¡¾2.59. 50.2% of the subjects reported a distress score of 4 or more. Among these, the most common problems were emotions. Moderate family support and health promotion behavior. Distress showed negative correlations with Family support (r = - .34, p<.001), and health promotion behavior (r= - .23, p=.002). Family support showed positive correlations with health promotion behavior (r=.43, p<.001).
Conclusion: The health promotion behavior of breast cancer survivors can be improved if family support is improved and distress is decreased. Therefore, a nursing intervention program that leads to improving family support and decreasing the distress of breast cancer survivors is needed to improve health promotion behavior.
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KEYWORD
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Breast Neoplasms, Distress, Support, Health Promotion, Survivors
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