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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Hope in Advanced Cancer Patients in the Terminal Phase of Neoplastic Disease and Stability of Basic Mood.

Bożena Baczewska, Bogusław Block, Beata Kropornicka, Maria Malm, Dagmara Musiał, Marta Makara-Studzińska, Agnieszka Zwolak

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The Cognitive Aspect of Hope in the Semantic Space of Male Patients Dying of Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Bożena BaczewskaChair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Medical University, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
Bogusław BlockInstitute for Family Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Pontifical University of John Paul II, 31-002 Kraków, Poland.
Beata KropornickaChair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Medical University, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
Maria MalmDepartment of Medical Informatics and Statistics with E-learning Lab, Medical University, 20-090 Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-9480-926X
Dagmara MusiałFaculty of Education and Psychology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 20-004 Lublin, Poland.
Marta Makara-StudzińskaDepartment of Health Psychology, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, 31-501 Kraków, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7374-528X
Agnieszka ZwolakChair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Medical University, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
Medical University of Lublin · PLJagiellonian University · PLMaria Curie-Skłodowska University · PLPontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this research is to compare the hope experienced by advanced cancer patients in the terminal phase of neoplastic disease in relation to the stability of their basic mood. The study group consisted of 246 patients, average age 59.5. The youngest respondent was 18 and the oldest was 90. The diagnostic tools used in the work comprised the Personal Card designed by T. Witkowski (PC) and an NCN-36 test (Block's Hope test), designed by B.L. Block to measure the strength of hope in people struggling with serious life-threatening diseases. The test consists of 4 subscales distinguished by factor analysis. Each subscale consists of 8 items. The test allows an evaluation of hope in the following dimensions: situational dimension (health, thelic-temporal dimension), goals to be achieved in the future, spiritual dimension (spirituality), religious beliefs, and emotional-motivational (affective) dimension (motivations). In cheerful patients who are in the terminal phase of cancer, mood stability does not constitute a major differentiating factor for experiencing hope. In sad people, on the other hand, mood stability affects the intensity of hope-those with an unstable mood are more likely to have a stronger emotional-motivational dimension of hope than sad people with a balanced mood.

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cancerhopepatientsstability of basic moodterminal

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PMID33158136
PMCPMC7694171
OpenAlexW3095131855

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