A Negative Effect of Post-Traumatic Growth on Self-perceived Burden of Patients with Lung Cancer During Chemotherapy in China: A Cross-sectional Survey

Liu Guixia; Zhang Hui; Meng Yun

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A Negative Effect of Post-Traumatic Growth on Self-perceived Burden of Patients with Lung Cancer During Chemotherapy in China: A Cross-sectional Survey

Liu Guixia, Zhang Hui, Meng Yun

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Background: self-perceived burden (SPB) is widespread in cancer patients, which is related to some physical symptoms, but more to psychological ones. Patients with lung cancer have a severe sense of self-burden and post-traumatic growth at different levels. As a protective factor of mental health, post-traumatic growth (PTG) how to influence SPB in cancer patients is rarely reported in the relevant literature. Purpose: To explore the effect of PTG on SPB and its influencing pathway of patients with lung cancer during chemotherapy, and to understand the potential mechanism, the indirect effect of PTG on SPB through illness perception and resilience was also studied. Methods: A total of 345 hospitalized chemotherapy patients with pathological diagnosis of lung cancer were enrolled as subjects. The level of illness perception, resilience, PTG and SPB were measured by the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ), 10 item Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD RISC 10), Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) and Self-Perceived Burden Scale for Cancer Patients (SPBS-CP), respectively. And they were analyzed that the effect of PTG on patients' SPB and its influence path. Results: Structural equation modeling results supported the hypothesis mediation model in predicting SPB (χ²=65.456, df=34, χ²/df=1.925, RMSEA=0.052, TLI=0.980, CFI=0.987) with fit indices. It showed that PTG had both direct effect (β=-0.437) and indirect effect via illness perception and resilience (95% confidence interval was - 1.183 to - 0.616, excluding 0, total indirect effect was - 0.212) on SPB of lung cancer patients during chemotherapy. Conclusions: PTG plays an obviously negative role in the SPB of patients with lung cancer during chemotherapy, and also has indirect effects on SPB through illness perception and resilience. It is necessary to strengthen multi-disciplinary cooperation and formulate relevant interventions to alleviate SPB by reducing patients' negative illness perception and improving their PTG and resilience.

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Lung Cancer, Self-perceived Burden, Post-traumatic Growth, Illness Perception, Resilience

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Zhang Hui

First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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