Abstract
Background: Hope is an essential factor to consider when caring for patients with cancer, It is a key component of coping with adversity and important for patient well-being. Treatment can relieve a patient's symptoms or cure the disease. It may also increase the patient's level of hope. Objective: This study aimed to explore the preoperative and postoperative hope level of patients with newly diagnosed gastric cancer, and identify how it changes over time. Methods: The study sample included 162 patients who diagnosed with gastric cancer in Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. The study was conducted between January 2018 to July 2018. Herth Hope Index was used to assess hope level of patients before surgery, one month and six months after surgery. Results: The score of hope level of the patients before surgery, one month and six months after surgery was (34.20±3.75), (37.78±4.10) and (39.16±4.73) respectively. It was found that the score was gradually increasing (P<0.01). In particular, the dimensions of temporality and future (T) and interconnectedness (I) escalated obviously (P<0.01). Conclusions: This study indicates that the hope level of newly diagnosed gastric cancer patients was gradually improved after surgery. The finding remind us that we can take targeted measures to improve preoperative hope level of gastric cancer patients.
Highlights
Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world, and its morbidity and mortality rate rank among the top of all kinds of tumors
We investigate patients who diagnosed with gastric cancer and intend to undergo surgery in Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center from January
The preoperative hope level of patients with gastric cancer was mostly at the medium level (34.20±3.75), and it increased to high level after surgery
Summary
Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world, and its morbidity and mortality rate rank among the top of all kinds of tumors. Hope is a belief which convinces people that a positive, realistic, and expectable goal can be achieved in the future. Long considered as an essential element for life, has been shown to be important among cancer patients in coping with illness and defusing death threats. Our study was designed to explore the dynamic changes of the hope level of newly diagnosed gastric cancer patients before and after surgical treatment, so as to provide theoretical basis for further formulating targeted interventions to improve the hope level of gastric cancer patients. Objective: This study aimed to explore the preoperative and postoperative hope level of patients with newly diagnosed gastric cancer, and identify how it changes over time. Conclusions: This study indicates that the hope level of newly diagnosed gastric cancer patients was gradually improved after surgery. The finding remind us that we can take targeted measures to improve preoperative hope level of gastric cancer patients
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