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The relationship of self-acceptance with decision making duration in cancer patient to perform mastectomy

Ayu Ratuati Setiawan¹, Feny Tunjungsari², Mochamad Aleq Sander³

¹Faculty of Medicine, University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Malang, Indonesia.

|May 31, 2021

Abstract

Background:

Cancer is a disease caused by abnormal growth of body cells that turn malignant and continue to grow uncontrollably. One of the treatments for breast cancer is mastectomy. The quickness of decision-making determines the survival rate of prognosis patients.

Objective:

This study aimed to determine the relationship of self-acceptance with decision-making duration in cancer patients to perform a mastectomy.

Methods:

An analytic observation method with cross-sectional design. The samples were taken by purposive sampling method with 50 samples of breast cancer patients. Data collected include age, last level of education, marital status, profession, stage of cancer during mastectomy, self-acceptance score, and decision-making duration to perform a mastectomy.

Results:

The data analyzed with the Kruskal-Wallis test. The test showed the relationship of self-acceptance (p = 0.027) with decision-making duration in breast cancer patients to perform a mastectomy.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, there is a relationship of self-acceptance with decision-making duration in breast cancer patients to perform a mastectomy.

Keywords:

Breast cancer decision-making duration mastectomy self-acceptance

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Keywords:

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