Open AccessGuilt as impact factor on family functioning in families with cancer patient
Author(s) -
Т.Г. Кривоніс
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medicina sʹogodnì ì zavtra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2710-1444
pISSN - 2414-4495
DOI - 10.35339/msz.2019.85.04.12
Subject(s) - psychology , psychological intervention , clinical psychology , feeling , situational ethics , psychological adaptation , mental health , distress , cancer , coping (psychology) , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology
Cancer has a negative impact on the mental health not only patients butalso their relatives. Based on ethical and deontological principles wereexamined 288 family members of cancer patient, 174 husbands and 114 wives.In the study used such diagnostic methods as Perceived Guilt Index and theFamily Adaptation and Cohesion Scale (FACES-3), a clinical-psychologicalinterview. It is determined, that cancer progression, the level of familyadaptation and gender influenced on the intensity of guilt. The severity ofsituational guilt was higher than the severity of personal guilt in familieswith a cancer patient. For cancer guilt in the patient and its familymembers were a frequent manifestation of mental distress, but theprogression of the disease was a significant factor in its actualization.Females were at increased risk for the effect of guilt on psychologicalstatus. In families with impaired family adaptation, feelings of guilt werea component of the negative experiences that accompanied maritalinteraction, and were greatly exacerbated in the crisis situation such asoncopathology. It is shown, that medical-psychological help for thepatient’s family is an important and necessary component of interventions inoncology practice.