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    Effects of emotional support-focused nursing interventions on the psychosocial adjustment of breast cancer patients
    (Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention, 2008) Gümüs, Aysun Babacan; Çam, Olcay
    The purpose was to examine the effect of emotional support-focused nursing interventions on the psychosocial adjustment of breast cancer patients. The research was conducted in the Radiation Oncology Department of Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital and at Tülay Aktas Oncology Hospital in Turkey. There were 30 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients included in the sample. Emotional support-focused nursing interventions were administered in seven sessions individually with each patient. A total of 210 hours of meetings with the patients were conducted. Data were collected by administering a pre-test and post-test in two phases with the patients using a Descriptive Information Form and the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale - Self Report (PAISSR). The patients mean age was 44.5 (SD=6.38) years and the mean duration of illness was 6.46 (SD=1.99) months. In the comparison of the PAIS-SR pretest and post-test mean scores it was determined that there was a significant increase in patients adaptation to health care orientation (p=0.001), domestic environment (p<0.01), sexual relationships (p<0.05), extended family relationships (p<.001) and social environment (p<0.001), and a significant decrease in psychological distress (p<0.001). However there was no change in patients vocational adjustment (p>.05). According to these findings emotional support-focused nursing interventions had a part in increasing patients psychosocial adjustment.
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    Relationships between early diagnosis attitudes in cervical cancer of women and levels of self-esteem, body perception and hopelessness
    (2011) Babacan Gümüş, Aysun; Çam, Olcay
    Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between early diagnosis attitudes and levels of self-esteem, body perception and hopelessness in women with cervical cancer. Material and Method: This research was conducted as a descriptive, cross-sectional study in an area covered by three neighborhood primary health care clinics in Bornova, Izmir. The data were collected from 390 women over the 18 years of age who were selected using a stratified random sampling method. A Descriptive Information Form, The Scale of Attitudes Toward Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer (SAEDCC), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Body Cathexis Scale (BCS) ve Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) were used for data collection. Results: 56.4% of women did not go to the gynecologic examination. The level of doing regularly pap test of women was 5.4%. The reasons why women did not want to be tested for pap smear were determined to be: not having any symptoms, neglect, not knowing pap smear and embarrassment. There were significant relations between perceived barrier and perceived benefit score means and RSES, BCS, BHS score means of the women. Conclusion: The rate of women who has been regularly tested for smear was low. It was found that women with high level of self-esteem, high level of hope and with a positive body perception have more positive health attitudes towards early diagnosis of cervical cancer.