ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2024
Perceived and Received Social Support and Illness Acceptance Among Breast Cancer Patients: The Serial Mediation of Meaning-Making and Fear of Recurrence.
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- The perceived and/or received peer support needs of unpaid cancer caregivers residing in rural and remote areas: A systematic review.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Pooled it
- Ecosystem Barriers and Facilitators Linked to the Fear of Cancer Recurrence: An Umbrella Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
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- "Immune senescence and dormant tumor cells: reconceptualizing breast cancer recurrence as an affliction of aging and chronic inflammation".Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Review
- Mindfulness and Basic Hope in Patients with Pelvic Cancer: Examining Illness Acceptance and Fear of Recurrence Within a Multiple Mediation Model.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- "Fear Has Big Eyes": Illness Perception, Fear of Recurrence, and Generalized Anxiety in Post-Treatment Thoracic Cancer Patients: A Serial Multiple Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Latent profile analysis and related factors for fear of progression among nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Relationship between physical exercise and quality of life in Chinese college students: the chain mediating effect of psychological flourishing and optimistic intelligence.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Chain-mediating effect of illness acceptance and perceived control on the relationship between family caring and self-perceived burden in elderly patients with breast cancer: a cross-sectional study.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- Acceptance in Patients With Cancer: A Scoping Review.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- The mediation role of hope and social support in the relationship between fatigue and burden in caregivers of patients with brain tumor.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- How family support alleviates death anxiety in breast cancer patients: the mediating role of meaning in life.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Role of Religious Comfort and Strain on Social Well-Being among Emerging Adults in Poland: Serial Mediation by Meaning Making Processes.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Dyadic Effects of Attachment on Illness Acceptance in Patients with Breast Cancer and Spousal Caregivers: Sense of Coherence as a Mediator.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- The relationship between fear of cancer recurrence and death anxiety among Chinese cancer patients: the serial mediation model.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
background and purposeThe literature indicates connections between social support and acceptance of a personal diagnosis of breast cancer, but these relationships are likely to be mediated due to numerous connections between social support and illness acceptance with meaning-making and fear of recurrence. We decided to investigate whether meaning-making and fear of recurrence serially mediated the relationship between perceived and received social support and illness acceptance.
methodsThe current research examined 246 adult women patients with a breast cancer diagnosis who were undergoing radiotherapy/chemotherapy treatment in oncological hospitals. This cross-sectional study based on a mediational model was reported according to the STROBE checklist.
resultsOur results supported the mediational model in which meaning-making and fear of recurrence serially mediated the relationship of both perceived and received social support with illness acceptance. Furthermore, the mediating power of meaning-making was more significant than the fear of recurrence.
conclusionMeaning structures and anxiety played an important mediating role in breast cancer patients. Finding additional meaning and goals and experiencing lower fear enables the patients to effectively make use of social support and accept their illness. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The current study identified factors that increase illness acceptance among breast cancer patients as it showed that patients can gain a greater understanding of the nature of their illness by becoming more aware of their own goals and values and reduce anxiety by learning about their current state of the illness.
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