Optimism, Spousal Support and Quality Of Life in Women with Breast Cancer

Abstract

Breast cancer is the 2nd most common cancer among women. To determine the level of optimism and spousal support in women with breast cancer. Cross-sectional study. Data was collected using the purposive sampling technique from the oncology departments of two public hospitals. Measures for data collection consisted of a demographic information sheet, and three scales including LOT-R (Ay,2009), DCI (Shuja et. al., 2020), and WHO-QOL BREF scale (Saqib,2017). A total of 80 women with a mean age of 35(SD=6.95) participated in the research. The collected data was analyzed by using SPSS version 25. Chi square ware applied with P-value< 0.05 as significant. Correlation revealed that optimism had a significant positive relationship with negative dyadic coping and with QOL scales except for Physical Health. All the subscales of DCI had a significant relationship with the subscales of QOL. It was found through HLM that education, socioeconomic status, cancer stage, monthly income, professional status after illness and optimism made a statistically significant contribution. It was concluded that optimism, negative dyadic coping and quality of life has a significant relationship. Likewise, education, socioeconomic status, cancer stage, monthly income, professional status after illness and optimism were found to be the determining factors of quality of life.