Association analysis of elderly cancer patients need for cognitive closure and hardiness

VernacularTitle:老年癌症患者认知闭合需要与坚韧性人格的相关性分析
Author: Lihua QI ¹ ; Xiao XU ; Xiaoyan WANG
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1. 250031 济南军区总医院干部二科C区
Keywords: Cancer; Elderly; Need for cognitive closure; Hardiness; Correlaton
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2014;20(34):4331-4333
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the relationship between need for cognitive closure and hardiness of elderly cancer patients, to provide references for nurses health education.Methods Two hundreds and fifty seven elderly cancer patients participated in the survey using chinese version of need for cognitive closure scale and hardiness scale.Results Patients need for cognitive closure score was (128.82 ±12.45), decisive dimension was (54.57 ±6.03) , and the demand for the structure dimension was (74.25 ±7.83) .The overall average score of hardiness was (2.54 ±0.31), the total score was (68.57 ±6.15).Patients’ need for cognitive closure and hardiness was negatively related.Two dimensions of cognitive closure could predict hardiness, combined predict rate was 42.5%.Conclusions The elderly cancer patients need for cognitive closure degree is low and hardiness level is well.Need for cognitive closure could predict hardiness.Nurses should encourage patients to become low need for cognitive closure, to increase the hardiness and improve their quality of life.