Perceived and Received Social Support and Illness Acceptance Among Breast Cancer Patients: The Serial Mediation of Meaning-Making and Fear of Recurrence

CONCLUSION: Meaning structures and anxiety played an important mediating role in breast cancer patients. Finding additional meaning and goals and experiencing lower fear enables the patients to effectively make use of social support and accept their illness.PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The current study identified factors that increase illness acceptance among breast cancer patients as it showed that patients can gain a greater understanding of the nature of their illness by becoming more aware of their own goals and values and reduce anxiety by learning about their current state of the illness.PMID:38134347 | DOI:10.1093/abm/kaad067
Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research