Изследване на психичното благо­ получие на жени с рак на млечната жлеза
Investigation on Psychological Well­being of Women with Breast Cancer

Summary/Abstract: Analysis of the psychological well-being of women with breast cancer in comparison with healthy women has been made in the article. It has been measured by means of the life orientation (Life Orientation Test (LOT–R) (Scheier, Carver & Bridges, 1994), self-esteem (Rosenberg, 1965), loneliness (UCLA Loneliness Scale, Version 3) (Russell, 1996) and mastery (Pearlin et al., 1981) scales. A total of 127 women of Bulgarian origin, of whom 83 at the mean age of 39.72 are in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd stage of the disease development and 44 healthy women at the mean age of 30.64, have been surveyed. The reliability of the scales applied has been shown. The psychological well-being of the women surveyed has been analysed with respect to: 1) medical characteristics (partial or total surgery, surgical removal of lymph nodes, presence or absence of metastases in them); 2) classical therapies (chemotherapy, radiation therapy and hormonal therapy) administered or not; and 3) application or not of alternative therapies (herbal medicine, physical load, administration of massage, lymph drainage, use of nutritional supplements, observance of diet).

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