Relationship between Psychological Resilience and Depression among elderly Cancer Patients with pain

Abstract

Psychological resilience is a relatively new construct in geriatrics field that allows older adults to improve the ability to adapt positively and has an important role in recovery from adversity and better physical and mental health in elderly patient with cancer Aim: Assess the level of psychological resilience and depression among elderly cancer patients with pain. Method A descriptive correlational research design was used. A purposive sample of 351elderly cancer patients selected from Oncology center Mansoura University. Results: the mean age of the studied elderly patients was 65.61 ± 5.70 years. 74,4% of the studied elders reported low level of resilience . 43,0% of the studied elders did not suffer from depression while 22,5% had mild depression. A highly significant statistical relation between psychological resilience levels and gender, level of education ,residence and living status (P=0.01**, 0.000**,0.00.0** and 0.03* respectively). There was high statistical significant relation between depression levels and age, gender, income, level of education and residence (P=0.005**, P=0.002**, P=0.000**,P=0.000**and P=0.003** respectively). Conclusion : A highly significant negative relation between psychological resilience and depression in which level of depression decrease with increase in psychological resilience. Also, there was high significant correlation between income and depression