TY  - JOUR
TI  - Perception of Illness, Coping Style, and Magical Ideation 
in Patients with Breast Cancer
AB  - OBJECTIVE
Breast cancer patients usually have psychological symptoms related with their perceptions of cancer. 
In our study, we aimed to investigate perception of illness, coping styles, and magical ideation of breast 
cancer patients, to compare their coping styles and magical ideation with healthy controls, and to investigate the relationships between these parameters.
METHODS
The study included 51 breast cancer patients and 79 people as control group. The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) was given cancer patients and Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory and The Magical Ideation Scale (MIS) were given both patients and healthy controls.
RESULTS
IPQ-R personal control perception and treatment control mean scores were higher than the other subdimension scores. Personal attributions and luck have been reported as the primarily cause of illness 
by patients. MIS scores were higher in the control group than patients. Emotion-focused coping scores 
were significantly lower in the cancer group than control group. A significant positive correlation has 
been found between the emotion-focused coping and cognitive representations and causal attributions.
CONCLUSION
Understanding how patients perceive the disease, their causal attributions and coping styles provides 
useful information to psychiatrists in planning psychosocial interventions.
AU  - Demir, Başaran
AU  - Gundogmus, Ayse Gokcen
AU  - Koçyiğit, Yasemin
DO  - 10.5505/tjo.2021.2642
PY  - 2021
JO  - Türk Onkoloji Dergisi
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
SN  - 1300-7467
SP  - 423
EP  - 430
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/518888
ER  -