Xian Lin, Ying Zhang, Ruiying Zhang, Shuai Yang, Lei Wang, Yanfeng Shen, Yuhang Sun, Cheng Chen, Jie Li, Xianjie Hao
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The patients' general information was collected, and their General Alienation Scale, Fear of Disease Progression Scale (short form; FoP-Q-SF), 10-item Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC10), Social Support Scale (PSSS), Social Constraints Scale (SCS) and General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) scores were compared.</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Results</h3>\n \n <p>Univariate analysis showed that the differences in social detachment scores among patients of different age groups, marital status, education level, per capita monthly income and surgical modality and whether or not they were receiving chemotherapy were significant (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Multifactorial analysis showed that age group, marital status, surgical modality and chemotherapy as well as their FoP-Q-SF, CD-RISC10, PSSS and SCS scores were all associated with loneliness in elderly patients with breast cancer. 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Post-Surgery Loneliness and Its Influencing Factors in Elderly Patients With Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study
Objective
To investigate the status of postoperative loneliness and factors influencing it in elderly patients with breast cancer.
Methods
The questionnaire survey was conducted between 1 January 2022 and 31 October 2024 in our hospital to screen 229 elderly patients with breast cancer after surgery who met the inclusion criteria. The patients' general information was collected, and their General Alienation Scale, Fear of Disease Progression Scale (short form; FoP-Q-SF), 10-item Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC10), Social Support Scale (PSSS), Social Constraints Scale (SCS) and General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) scores were compared.
Results
Univariate analysis showed that the differences in social detachment scores among patients of different age groups, marital status, education level, per capita monthly income and surgical modality and whether or not they were receiving chemotherapy were significant (p < 0.001). Multifactorial analysis showed that age group, marital status, surgical modality and chemotherapy as well as their FoP-Q-SF, CD-RISC10, PSSS and SCS scores were all associated with loneliness in elderly patients with breast cancer. Structural equation modelling showed that social support (p < 0.001) and mental toughness (p < 0.001) negatively predicted social alienation, and social constraints (p < 0.001) and fear of disease progression (p < 0.001) positively predicted social alienation. Moreover, mental toughness (p < 0.001) and social support (p < 0.001) negatively predicted fear of disease progression. Social constraints negatively influenced mental toughness (p < 0.001), and social support positively influenced mental toughness (p < 0.001).
Conclusion
Loneliness in elderly patients with breast cancer is at a moderate level and needs to be improved by further research. Mental toughness, fear of disease progression, a history of chemotherapy and social constraints are influential factors in loneliness.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.