期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：3
页码：2545-2553
DOI：10.9756/INT-JECSE/V14I3.306
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Background:Women once diagnosed with an illness, generally develops an organized pattern of beliefs about their condition. This pattern is directly influenced by the individual's disease knowledge, personal health experiences or experiences of others such as family members, relatives and friends who had similar symptoms or diagnosis.1Variety of factors such as personal, social, economic, spiritual and cultural have been found to be associated with the utilization of cancer control services and preventive behaviors. People having low levels of education, income, and social status often delay in seeking care for cancer symptoms. They are least likely to participate in diagnostic screening.2 Objectives:-1. To assess the levels of comfort among the women having breast cancer. 2. To identify the correlation between the stages of cancer and comfort level among the women having breast cancer.3. To identify the correlation between coping strategies and comfort levels among the women having breast cancer.4. To identify the correlation of cognitive representation between comfort levels among the women having breast cancer.5. To find out association between the comfort level with selected demographical variables among the women having breast cancer. Major findings:-None of the participants experienced extreme discomfort or comfort. During the first interview 194(77.6%) participants had mild comfort which increased to 230(92%) in second interview and 235(94%) in the third interview. During first interview 56(22.4%) participants were experiencing moderate comfort which reduced to 20(8%) in second interview and 15(6%) participants in the third interview. This indicates that the comfort level came down with the progression of disease and treatment.The difference in the comfort levels is statistically significant from first interview to third interview as p=0.05. The means show a pattern of scores (11.37, 10.24 and 10.49 respectively for 1st, 2ndand 3rd interview) indicating that comfort reduced slightly over first and second month and then slightly increased in the third month. This shows that this was because of the adjustment of the participants to their disease condition, acceptance of inevitable or favorable response to the treatment they received.
