期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2018
卷号：25
期号：1
页码：167-171
DOI：10.26444/aaem/75876
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction. Despite great progress in the diagnostics and treatment, breast cancer still remains the most frequentlydiagnosed malignant cancer in women. The outcomes of cancer treatment depend, to a considerable extent, on the degreeof acceptance of the illness. The objective of the study was determination of the level of acceptance of the disease amongthe examined women with breast cancer.Materials and method. The study covered a group of 231 women who received treatment for breast cancer in the Rev.Bronislaw Markiewicz Subcarpathian Oncology Centre in Brzozow, south-eastern Poland, and conducted by the method ofa diagnostic survey, using an author constructed questionnaire and the standard Acceptance of Illness Scale, adapted by Z.Juczyński. Statistical analyses were performed using the software IBM SPSS v. 21.0.0.1. The p values p≤0.05 were consideredstatistically significant.Results. The mean level of acceptance of the illness in the examined group of women was 26.53 (SD = 7.71; Me = 26). Thelargest number of respondents (50.6%) obtained scores within the range of 20–29, according to the AIS Scale. From amongthe adopted variables, the level of acceptance of the illness significantly varied according to age and occupational activity.However, no such differences were confirmed according to the place of residence, marital status, education level, or thetype of occupation performed.Conclusions. In the examined group of women, a mediocre level of acceptance of cancer was observed. The respondents’age and occupational situation exerted a significant effect on the level of acceptance of the illness. The results of the studyshould be considered as satisfactory because the number of women with a high level of acceptance of breast cancer wasmore than twice as high as those ones with a low acceptance of the disease.
关键词：breast cancer; demographic factors; AIS Scale; acceptance of illness
