Exploring the Relationship among Emotion, Self-Efficacy and the Information Seeking Behavior In Women With Breast Cancer
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Lu, Hui-Ju
Abstract
Purposes: he purposes of this study were to find out Taiwanese women’s emotion, self-efficacy and information seeking behavior in breast cancer, and to explore if the variable of self-efficacy between emotion and information seeking behavior is a mediator or moderator.ethods:his study including the quantitive and qualitative data. This is a cross-sectional study. After searching for cooperation from hospitals and approved by the Institutional Review Board procedure, four hospitals in Taipei agreed to join this study. The participants of this study include breast cancer patients of breast surgery, hematology, radiology oncology clinics. All samples came from convenient sampling. There were 292 patients valid samples with collection period from May 15 to June 30, year 2009.nd the qualitative data collected by focus group to explore the relationship among emotion, self-efficacy and the information seeking behavior in women with breast cancer.esults and Recommendations:he relationship between emotion and information seeking behavior will be moderated by self-efficacy. The information seeking behavior in women with breast cancer will be influenced by education and current cancer situation, and patients’ emotion and information seeking behavior are highly individualized. According to the qualitative study, cancer patients’ and support groups will positively influence breast cancer patients including stablizing patients’ emotion and satisfying patients’ needs for information, arising patients’ confidence in self-care about their disease. Recommendations to further researches are to consider environmental, cultural and patients’ personality factors, take patients’ whole course of treatment as unit of analysis, and focus on different types of cancer in order to obtain more comprehensive understanding about patients’ emotion, self-efficacy and information seeking behavior.ey words: breast cancer, emotion, self-efficacy, information seeking behavior
Subjects
breast cancer
emotion
self-efficacy
information seeking behavior
SDGs
Type
thesis
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