نمونه ترجمه تخصصی پرستاری درباره تاب آوری بیماران سرطانی

Resilience of cancer patients

Being diagnosed with cancer changes every health aspects of an individual. The disease is featured with an unclear prognostic and a wide range of severe and prolonged side effects. These characteristics are rooted in the complicated and aggressive nature of the treatment [1]. Cancer is the second cause of death in the world after cardiovascular diseases [2]. People with cancer experience sequential crises of physical and mental stresses due to long-term treatment, the side effects of treatment, indefinite outcomes, and inability to handle daily activities [3-6]. As a result, the patient experiences undesirable social and mental consequences (Rosenberg, 2018). Therefore, the majority of cancer patients seek ways to attenuate negative mental consequences through learning the methods to adapt to the disease [7]. Based on the findings, emotional, social, economic, and information support for cancer patients help them in their fight with the mental pressure of the disease and the side effects of the treatment and chemotherapy in particular [8-10]. Kapilo et al. stated that patients with cancer experience several physical and mental disorders over time and to improve their adaptability to the disease, they need support, awareness, and sympathy [11]. Resilience is one of the factors that plays a key role in adaptation to the stressful events of life and helps the dynamic process of positive adaptation to bitter and hard experiences of life [12]. Resilience is individuals or group of individuals’ ability to move forward and overcome hardships in their way (Betancourt, 2011). Patients with cancer need to be highly resilient [13]; if so, they can have better understanding of the condition and have better reaction to the challenges [14]. Inability to overcome problems and inefficiency of resistance approaches –i.e. lack of resilience- results in inefficiency of coping with life events and crises (Prince-Embury, 2015). Viggers et al. (2012) surveyed the role of resilience and strategies to adapt to stresses on psychological function of patients with chronic pain and concluded that while resilience was not effective on the severity of pain, it improved mental health and quality of life in patients [15]. Golkari et al. (2015) noted that resilience improved self-control of patients against challenges. It also improved self-mental image and led to improvement of physical and mental health [16].