Systematic Review Breast Cancer Survivor Optimism

Abstract

Perception of disease and quality of life are the main issues that consider breast cancer management. The form of suffering experienced by cancer patients, one of the significant experience problems is the fear of inevitable death. The diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer has a considerable psychological impact on women. After the diagnosis of breast cancer, the fear of death, hopelessness and fear related to the expected life changes, together with the impaired quality of life due to treatment can lead to negative perceptions in the patient. Patients are expected to have a positive attitude towards healing. Objectives: This systematic review aims to systematically review international research related to optimism in breast cancer over the last decade as reported in English journals from various countries. Methods: Source tracing strategy from three electronic databases: Proquest, PubMed, EBSCO with limitations from 2010 to 2020. The inclusion criteria used were articles related to optimism in breast cancer published online in English, having research sites in the community. from various countries. Results: The results of the analysis of the 30 articles related to optimism in breast cancer found 5 important things, namely factors that affect optimism, low optimism is a factor supporting recurrence, interventions to increase optimism, the impact of optimism and recommendations for future research.