Hope in Hospitalized Patients with Terminal Cancer

Bożena Baczewska, Bogusław Block, Beata Kropornicka, Antoni Niedzielski, Maria Malm, Agnieszka Zwolak and Marta Makara-Studzińska
Additional contact information
Bożena Baczewska: Chair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Medical University, Chodźki 7 Street, 20-093 Lublin, Poland
Bogusław Block: The Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kanonicza 25, 31-002 Kraków, Poland
Beata Kropornicka: Chair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Medical University, Chodźki 7 Street, 20-093 Lublin, Poland
Antoni Niedzielski: Chair of Humanities, Medical University Staszica 4-6 Street, 20-081 Lublin, Poland
Maria Malm: Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics with E-learning Lab, Medical University, Jaczewskiego 4 Street, 20-090 Lublin, Poland
Agnieszka Zwolak: Chair of Internal Medicine and Department of Internal Medicine in Nursing, Medical University, Chodźki 7 Street, 20-093 Lublin, Poland
Marta Makara-Studzińska: Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Kopernika 25 Street, 31-501 Kraków, Poland

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 20, 1-10

Abstract: Hope is of great importance for patients diagnosed with cancer, especially those that are terminally ill. The diagnosis often puts an end to the realization of personal, social, and professional goals. The aim of this study was to characterize the hope of hospitalized patients diagnosed with cancer in the terminal phase of the disease. The research tool used in the study was Block’s hope test (NCN-36; NCN- Nadzieja Chorych Nowotworowych—Hope of Cancer Patients), designed for patients with life-threatening diseases. The results showed that the patients were characterized by a moderate level of global hope. The highest levels of hope were noted in the spiritual-religious area and the lowest levels of hope concerned curing the disease. Patients exhibited varied levels of hope and varied internal structures of hope. They presented four different types of hope: optimistic, moderate, religious, and weak. Optimistic hope was found most frequently in patients diagnosed with a terminal phase of cancer, while weak hope was represented by the smallest group of these patients.

Keywords: hope; cancer; terminal disease; care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/20/3867/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/20/3867/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:20:p:3867-:d:275796

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().