Psychometric properties of Liverpool Stoicism Scale (LSS) in a cohort of patients with resected cancer in adjuvant treatment
2017; Servicio de Publicaciones; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.6018/analesps.33.3.277061
ISSN1695-2294
AutoresCaterina Calderón, Pere J. Ferrando, Urbano Lorenzo‐Seva, Alberto Carmona‐Bayonas, Carlos Jara, Francisco Ayala de la Peña, Carmen Beato, Avinash Ramchandani, Teresa García, Montserrat Mangas‐Izquierdo, Beatriz Castelo, O. Donnay, María del Mar Muñoz, Eva Martínez de Castro, Sara Mallén García, Ismael Ghanem, Teodor Mellén Vinagre, Paula Jiménez‐Fonseca,
Tópico(s)Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Resumo<p>Stoicism has been used to describe a wide range of behaviors in the face of disease that go from silence, resistance to the adversity, or ‘to make the best of a bad disease’. This study pursued two objectives: 1) analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the LSS; 2) assess the relation between stoicism and gender, age, and the five-factor personality model. NEOcoping is a prospective, multicenter, observational, non-interventionist study. Patients were recruited consecutively at thirteen Spanish teaching hospitals. The following scales were administered: Liverpool Stoicism Scale (LSS) and Big Five Inventory (BFI-10). A total of 443 patients (250 females) with a mean age of 59.8 years (<em>SD</em> =12.3) were enrolled. Colon cancer was the most common (40.0%), followed by breast cancer (32.7%). At the total-scale level, mean LSS was lower than the originally reported British series and higher than Latvian sample. The four-factor structure fitted the data well, had a clear interpretation, and the derived scales showed acceptable reliabilities. The personality trait of introversion predicted 4.1% of the variance of stoicism (<em>p</em><.001). The LSS scale demonstrates good psychometric properties to appraise stoicism in the Spanish population with resected cancer. </p>
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