AFRONTAMIENTO Y RESILENCIA EN MUJERES CON CANCER DE MAMA.

Abstract

Cancer is a public health problem that affects all areas of the human being from a biopsychosocial point of view. According to the WHO, cancer "is the rapid multiplication of abnormal cells that extend beyond their usual limits and can invade adjacent parts of the body or spread to other organs, a process known as metastasis", which are the main cause of death. Coping is a tool that is used in daily life using various strategies to find the solution to a stressful problem at a given time, which is described as a way of handling situations that can generate stress in people, with which it seeks to tolerate, minimize, accept or ignore that which exceeds their capabilities, either by restraining the stimulus, through the actions, thoughts, emotions and emotions that the individual uses when dealing with the overflowing situation. Coping is proposed as a strategy to improve the quality of life and improve the predisposition conditions of women with breast cancer. It is a field investigation, descriptive, transversal and comparative. The analyzes were performed using the Brief COPE17 scale. Among the results it was obtained that the ANOVA test was significant for the sub-scales substance use, emotional-religious support and self-incrimination, that is, that the mean of the groups are different and statistically significant. It is to be noted that the values ​​of the means of sub-scales substance use and self-incrimination is higher in the study group, while for emotional support.