The mediating role of psychological resilience and family caring in the relationship between social support and family resilience in patients with cervical cancer
Objective To explore the relationship between family resilience and social support, psychological resilience, and family caring in cervical cancer patients, and to analyze the mediating role of psychological resilience and family caring between social support and family resilience. Methods From September 2022 to June 2023, cervical cancer patients in two tertiary-level hospitals in Jiangsu Province were selected by convenience sampling method, and questionnaire surveys were conducted on them using the General Information Question-naire, Family Resilience Questionnaire(FaREQ), 10-item Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale, family APGAR index(APGAR) and Social Sup-port Rating Scale(SSRS). Then the correlation analyses were performed between the variables and the mediating effects were analyzed by struc-tural equation modeling. Results Pearson correlation analysis showed that social support, family caring, and psychological resilience of cervi-cal cancer patients were significantly and positively correlated with family resilience (P < 0.05). Structural equation modeling showed that: the direct effect of family caring degree on family resilience of cervical cancer patients was not significant (P > 0.05); social support exerted a direct effect on family resilience (the effect value being 0.370) and an indirect effect through family caring and psychological resilience (the effect value being 0.391). Conclusions The higher the social support of cervical cancer patients, the higher the level of family resilience; family car-ing and psychological resilience play a chain mediating role between social support and family resilience.
Cervical cancerFamily resilienceSocial supportPsychological resilienceFamily caringInfluencing factorsMediating role