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Musarezaie A, Khaledi F, Kabbazi-fard M R, Momeni-GhaleGhasemi T, Keshavarz M, Khodaee M. Investigation the Dysfunctional attitudes and its´ relationship with stress, anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients. J Health Syst Res 2015; 11 (1) :68-76
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Amir Musarezaie 
1, Firouz Khaledi2 , Mohammad Reza Kabbazi-fard3 , Tahereh Momeni-GhaleGhasemi4 , Mahboubeh Keshavarz5 , Mahnaz Khodaee6
1, Firouz Khaledi2 , Mohammad Reza Kabbazi-fard3 , Tahereh Momeni-GhaleGhasemi4 , Mahboubeh Keshavarz5 , Mahnaz Khodaee6
1- MSc, Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Department of Adult Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2- MSc, Department of Nursing Psychology, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Broujen University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
3- Master of exceptional children psychology graduated, Allameh Tabatabaee University, prodigious talent office manager of Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
4- MSc, Department of Adult Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
5- MA in General Psychology, Arsanjan Azad Islamic University, Shiraz, Iran
6- MSc, Department of Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2- MSc, Department of Nursing Psychology, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Broujen University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
3- Master of exceptional children psychology graduated, Allameh Tabatabaee University, prodigious talent office manager of Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
4- MSc, Department of Adult Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
5- MA in General Psychology, Arsanjan Azad Islamic University, Shiraz, Iran
6- MSc, Department of Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Background: Breast cancer is considered as the most common as well as most effective malignancy in adult female population, which is lead to deep psychological and emotional problems such as depression, anxiety and stress. Based on cognitive models one of the possible factors lead to develop of depression, anxiety and stress in people, is the cognitive distortions and dysfunctional attitudes towards the situation. High prevalence and huge effects of breast cancer´s depression, anxiety and stress on different aspects of patient’s life, as well as key role of dysfunctional attitudes in development of these elements; encouraged us to design and perform a study with aim to investigat the dysfunctional attitudes and its´ relationship with stress, anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients referred to a specialized cancer hospital Isfahan, Iran.Methods: This descriptive, analytic cross sectional study was conducted on cancer patients who were selected using simple sampling. A total number of 297 hospitalized patients with breast cancer were enrolled in 6 months. The clinical and demographic characteristics information, dysfunctional attitudes questionnaire (DAS-26) and the depression, anxiety, and stress scale (DASS-42) were used. All analyses were performed using descriptive and analytic statistical tests in SPSS for Windows 18.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).Findings: Mean scores of dysfunctional attitudes were 87.35 (27.53). Also mean scores of stress, anxiety and depression were 14.16 (9.38), 11.64 (8.27) and 12.06 (9.52) respectively. Based on study findings there was a statistically significant relationship between dysfunctional attitudes with stress, anxiety and depression in patients with breast cancer.Conclusion: With regard to results of this study, breast cancer patients with higher scores dysfunctional attitudes had more stress, anxiety and depression. In addition low dysfunctional attitudes score was an important protecting factor against stress, anxiety and depression in these patients.Key Words: Anxiety, Breast cancer, Depression, Dysfunctional attitudes, Stress
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
education health and promotion
Received: 2020/07/16 | Accepted: 2015/04/15 | Published: 2015/04/15
Received: 2020/07/16 | Accepted: 2015/04/15 | Published: 2015/04/15
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