Self-efficacy and hope among women with breast cancer in the Kurdistan region

Abstract

Cancer disease is regarded as one of the diseases that
psychologically have a devastating impact on the patient besides it is
physically dangerous. This word, cancer disease, always conjures up
fears of death, destruction, suffering, disfigurement, and depression.
It also leads to anxiety and stress for the patient and those around
him / her such as family and relatives. Accordingly, it is necessary to
study this disease and take it into consideration.
The researcher, throughout her interviews with thirteen
infected women of breast cancer, has noticed that the psychological
condition and moral resistance against the disease and the extent of
their interaction with the course of life, differ from one case to
another in terms of how they have self-efficacy or their hope
positively towards life, helps them to resist the disease and respond
to the therapy more, as well as not to concern abnormally about the
things that frustrate their efficacy and hope in life.
The importance of self-efficacy and hope are manifested here,
as through their role in developing the individual’s personality and
achieving goals in a healthy, and safe manner and protecting one self
from the risks that she / he encounter whether the problems or illness
are psychological or physical,through their reflections in cneating
healthy trends towards personality and enhance its coherent survival
in health and disease. .
This affects them physically as well as psychologically. The
importance of studying these combined variables becomes obvious
here for us, particularly among infected women of breast cancer due
to the impact of each of these variables on the patient’s
psychological condition, which affect negatively their health.
In the present study, the researcher aims at identifying the following