Niveles de resiliencia en pacientes con tumores gastrointestinales del Instituto del Cáncer SOLCA Cuenca-Azuay, período 2021

Abstract

Resilience is a psychological variable that allows the individual to face a situation in a positive way with the own resources he/she possesses; thus, it is appropriate to investigate this variable in the oncological population, since presenting a chronic disease that involves several treatments to combat it, this can directly affect the way of facing the disease and its level of resilience. Therefore, the general objective of the research was to describe the levels of resilience that predominate in patients with gastrointestinal tumors of the SOLCA Cancer Institute, Cuenca-Azuay in the period 2021, according to sociodemographic variables; it was also proposed to identify the levels presented by the five dimensions of resilience and to determine the resilience factor that has a higher average in this population. This study had a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental approach; we worked with a population of 143 patients with gastrointestinal tumors. The Resilience Scale of Wagnild and Young (1993) adapted to Spanish by Novella (2002) and the sociodemographic data sheet prepared by the authors were applied. As a result, it was obtained that patients with gastrointestinal tumors present high levels of resilience based on the established ranges of the scale, a high score was found in the dimension of feeling well alone and a higher average in Factor I which corresponds to personal competence. Likewise, high levels of resilience were found in most of the sociodemographic variables. The conclusion is, that the oncology patients in this study possess resilient qualities to overcome difficult situations such as their illness