Associations between a sense of connection and existential and psychosocial outcomes in gynecologic and breast cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A cancer diagnosis may lead to existential despair but potentially also to perceived inner growth. This growth may be fostered through meaningful connections with others. We sought to describe existential and related psychosocial outcomes and their association with a sense of connection with others in individuals with gynecological and breast cancers.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data from two ongoing cohort studies of gynecologic (N = 236) and breast (N = 62) cancer survivors at the University of Minnesota. We summarized self-reported post-traumatic growth (PTG), sense of meaning, peace, spirituality, hopelessness, loneliness, and three exploratory measures of sense of connections with others, and used multivariate linear regression models to describe the asso

SUBMITTER: Jewett PI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8727470 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature