Mediating Effect of Self-compassion Between Illness Perception and Demoralization in Cervical Cancer Patients
Objective To explore the mediating effect of self-compassion between illness perception and demoralization in cervical cancer patients.Methods The convenience sampling method was used to select a total of 306 cervical cancer pa-tients treated in the department of gynecology in two tertiary A hospitals in Taiyuan,Shanxi Province,from October 2022 to December 2023 as study subjects.The general information questionnaire,Demoralization Scale-Ⅱ,Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire,and Self-Compassion Scale were used for investigation.Results The mean scores of illness perception,de-moralization,and self-compassion of patients with cervical cancer were(37.58±8.69),15.00(11.00,18.00)and(78.33±9.89),respectively.Illness perception was positively correlated with demoralization(r=0.298,P＜0.01),and was negatively corre-lated with self-compassion(r=-0.291,P＜0.01).Self-compassion was negatively correlated with demoralization(r=-0.482,P＜0.0l).Self-compassion was a mediating variable between illness perception and demoralization,with its media-ting effect accounting for 56.50％of the total effect.Conclusions Medical staff should take effective measures to reduce the level of patients'negative illness perception,enhance self-compassion,and improve demoralization.
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