Procesos de resiliencia en mujeres con cáncer de mama

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to characterize the types of resilience in women with breast cancer. This study is based on the cognitive-behavioral approach, which stands out from other approaches because it contemplates the mental health environment through the duality between human behavior and thought. Three themes of analysis were constituted: resilience processes in women with breast cancer; personological configuration in the resilience processes in women with breast cancer; psychodiagnosis based on the experiences of women with breast cancer. The sample was made up of three women with breast cancer who make known their resilient processes in breast cancer belonging to the support group "Las Guerreas", residents of the province of El Oro, Machala canton. The approach of this research is qualitative with hermeneutic phenomenological design of homogeneous non-probabilistic sample; according to the progress of data collection, the saturation of the categories was reached with the three participants. In the data collection process, the in-depth interview was used as a qualitative technique that allows to deepen in the significant experiences of the participants. According to the thorough search of theoretical resources, based on pioneering and current authors, results were obtained that show that resilient processes in women with breast cancer are sustained through sub-categories such as nomic resilience, regenerative resilience and adaptive resilience; as for the personological configuration in the processes of resilience in women with breast cancer, categories of emotional support were evidenced, such as learned hope, the motive system, locus of control, self-efficacy, sense of coherence and attachment system; as for the psychodiagnosis based on the experiences of women with breast cancer, areas such as family, academic, social, work, couple and personal were deepened. As a conclusion of the study, breast cancer presents a challenge for women suffering from this disease, leading them to experience various sensations both physically and psychologically; however, having resilience as a protective factor, allows the disease process to be more peaceful and improve their quality of life during the disease