Life Satisfaction and Sense of Coherence of Breast Cancer Survivors Compared to Women with Mental Depression, Arterial Hypertension and Healthy Controls
: Minna Salakari, Sakari Suominen, Raija Nurminen, Lauri Sillanmäki, Liisa Pylkkänen, Päivi Rautava, Markku Koskenvuo
: Li, H., Nykänen, P., Suomi, R., Wickramasinghe, N., Widén, G., Zhan, M.
: International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS
: 2016
: Communications in Computer and Information Science
: Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems
: Communications in Computer and Information Science
: 636
: 636
: 253
: 265
: 13
: 978-3-319-44671-4
: 978-3-319-44672-1
: 1865-0929
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_20
The purpose of the study was to compare the life satisfaction (LS) and
sense of coherence (SOC) of women recovering from breast cancer (BC) to
LS and SOC of women with depression or hypertension and of healthy
controls. Finnish Health and Social Support (HeSSup) follow-up survey
data in 2003 was linked with national health registries. BC patients
were followed up for mortality until the end of 2012. The statistical
computations were carried out with SAS®. There were no significant
differences in LS and SOC between the groups with BC, arterial
hypertension or healthy controls. Women recovering from BC are as
satisfied with their life as healthy controls, and their perceived LS is
better and SOC is stronger compared to women with depression. SOC
correlated positively (r2 = 0.36, p < 0.001) with LS.
However, more studies on determinants of the LS are needed for designing
and organizing health care services for BC survivors.
