BASIC BELIEFS IN FEMALE CANCER PATIENTS IN REMISSION

Abstract

Despite the development of medicine, oncology remains a big problem today. In general, both in the field of medicine and in the world, oncology completely changes human life. It affects the physiological process and the psyche. The life of cancer patients in remission is undergoing great changes. Cancer changes the system of ideas of person. In general, basic beliefs represent cognitive schemas of a person, which are established throughout whole life and determine a person’s ideas about himself and about the external world. One or another psychotrauma, including life-threatening phenomena, often changes beliefs. Based on this, the purpose of the study is to determine what are the basic beliefs of female patient in remission. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to study this issue. Janof-Bulman’s questionnaire “Scale of basic beliefs” is a method of quantitative research, which establishes what is a person’s idea about the world, well-being and ingenuity. In addition, the data of the qualitative research method were used and processed, in particular, those obtained as a result of in-depth interviews, whose task is to determine what role the change in basic beliefs played for a person, who it affected the quality of his life and relationships. The results of questionnaire revealed that the basic beliefs of cancer patient in remission don’t differ in any way from the same beliefs of women who didn’t have oncology. The results of the interview revealed that the quality of life if cancer patient has changed in a positive direction. They noted that their attitude to the world, to themselves and relationships has improved.