Empowerment among breast cancer survivors using an online peer support community.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Breast cancer (BC) impacts the patients' quality of life. Peer support can provide emotional understanding and enhances access to information, social support, coping strategies, and empowerment. Comunitats is an online peer support community app for BC survivors that involves healthcare professionals. This study aims to explore how participation in Comunitats promotes empowerment, and to identify the variables related to it.

Methods

A prospective, cross-sectional approach was applied. One hundred twenty-one women diagnosed with BC were included in Comunitats. Sociodemographic and clinical variables, along with measures of emotional distress (HADS), post-traumatic growth (PTGI), and empowerment (Van Uden-Kraan's Empowerment Questionnaire), were collected through an

SUBMITTER: Ruiz-Romeo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11680672 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature