Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer
Background and Objectives: Breast cancer, as the most common cancer, is the cause of death in many women around the world. This study aims to predict the immune system performance based on stress coping methods and defense mechanisms in women with breast cancer. Methods: The study population includ...
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| author | Saghi Kousha Farah Lotfi Kashani Shahram Vaziri Nahid Nafisi |
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| description | Background and Objectives: Breast cancer, as the most common cancer, is the cause of death in many women around the world. This study aims to predict the immune system performance based on stress coping methods and defense mechanisms in women with breast cancer.
Methods: The study population includs all women with breast cancer in Tehran and Guilan provinces of Iran in 2019, from whom 250 were selected by a purposive sampling method. Data were collected using the warning signs of immunodeficiency list, the Defense Style Questionnaire, and the Multidimensional Coping Inventory. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis in SPSS software, version 22.
Results: The results of regression analysis showed that the emotion-focused coping as well as mature, neurotic, and immature defense mechanisms could significantly predict the immune system performance (P<0.05). Together, these variables were able to explain 28% of the variance in the immune performance.
Conclusion: In women with breast cancer, the immune system function can be predicted by their used defense mechanisms and stress coping strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a816cccf5e814365aeedc964e1f352382023-02-22T05:41:25ZfasQom University of Medical SciencesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum1735-77992008-13752022-08-01165402413Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast CancerSaghi Kousha0Farah Lotfi Kashani1Shahram Vaziri2Nahid Nafisi3 Department of Psychology, Rudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen, Iran. Department of Psychology, Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Department of Psychology, Rudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen, Iran. Department of General Surgery, Rasool Akram Medical Complex Clinical Research Development Center (RCRDC), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Background and Objectives: Breast cancer, as the most common cancer, is the cause of death in many women around the world. This study aims to predict the immune system performance based on stress coping methods and defense mechanisms in women with breast cancer. Methods: The study population includs all women with breast cancer in Tehran and Guilan provinces of Iran in 2019, from whom 250 were selected by a purposive sampling method. Data were collected using the warning signs of immunodeficiency list, the Defense Style Questionnaire, and the Multidimensional Coping Inventory. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis in SPSS software, version 22. Results: The results of regression analysis showed that the emotion-focused coping as well as mature, neurotic, and immature defense mechanisms could significantly predict the immune system performance (P<0.05). Together, these variables were able to explain 28% of the variance in the immune performance. Conclusion: In women with breast cancer, the immune system function can be predicted by their used defense mechanisms and stress coping strategies.http://journal.muq.ac.ir/article-1-3480-en.htmlimmune systemcopingdefense mechanismsbreast cancer |
| spellingShingle | Saghi Kousha Farah Lotfi Kashani Shahram Vaziri Nahid Nafisi Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum immune system coping defense mechanisms breast cancer |
| title | Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_full | Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_fullStr | Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_short | Predicting the Immune System Performance Based on Stress Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_sort | predicting the immune system performance based on stress coping strategies and defense mechanisms in women with breast cancer |
| topic | immune system coping defense mechanisms breast cancer |
| url | http://journal.muq.ac.ir/article-1-3480-en.html |
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