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International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume: 20
July 25-26, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
14
th
World Congress on
Mental Health and Wellbeing
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th
World Congress on
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Oncological patients’ well-being
Olga N Sharova
South Ural State Medical University, Russia
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he purpose of this study was to compare personality traits, values and coping strategies of the behavior of people with
oncological diseases and healthy people. Two groups of people took part in our study and were examined using a clinical
interview and an experimental psychological method, which included three techniques: The Minnesota multidimensional
personality questionnaire (MMPI) (S Hatway, and D McKinley, 1949); The questionnaire "Values in Action" (K Peterson,
and M Seligman, 2001); The "Way of Coping Questionnaire" (R Lazarus, and S Folkman, 1988). The main group consisted of
people with oncological diseases, 78 white race people (N=78), of which 61.54% were female. The average age of the examined
persons with oncological diseases is 54.08±4.54 years. The control group consisted of healthy individuals who did not have
cancer, including 30 people (N=30), among whom 63% were female. The mean age of the control group was 54.78±4.55 years.
All the personality indicators of oncological patients are higher than of healthy people, excepting the scores of impulsiveness
and optimism, which are lower. The overcontrol, asthenia, pessimism, emotional lability (demonstrativeness), anxiety and
individuality scales are significantly differenced among the groups surveyed. Humanism and love, Moderation, and Spirituality
are three kinds of positive values that reliably distinguish oncological patients from healthy people. For healthy people, the
strategy of confrontation is more preferable than for oncological patients. All studying psychological features of oncological
patients are more adaptive and socially mature in comparison with healthy people that requires further investigation in the
future.
Biography
Olga N Sharova has completed her Master of Science at the age of 27 years from South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia. She is the associate
professor of the Psychiatry Department of South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk. At the same time, she is the teacher of the Department of General
Psychology, Psychodiagnostics and Psychological Counseling of South Ural State University (NRU), Chelyabinsk, Russia, and the doctor-psychotherapist of the
Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Center of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Chelyabinsk Russia. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals..
onsharova@yandex.ruOlga N Sharova, IJEMHHR 2018, Volume: 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C3-018