Determination of Ontological Well-Being and Self-Compassion Levels in Patients with Mastectomy: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Behice Belkıs Çalışkan, İnci Mercan Annak, Ayşe Kabasakal and 3 others
PMID 41940436WHAT IT FOUND
In 96 patients after mastectomy, self-compassion and how positively patients feel about their past, present, and future were only weakly linked.
Scores differed by perceived health, family problems, and support. The study cannot show that one caused the other.
Key findings
01Mean Ontological Well-Being Scale score was 62.14 on a 24 to 120 point scale, and mean Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form score was 32.18 on an 11 to 55 point scale among 96 participants.
02Total ontological well-being and self-compassion had a weak positive correlation (r = 0.363, p < 0.05).
03Participants who reported sufficient support from family and friends or environment had higher self-compassion scores than those who reported insufficient support.
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What it does not show
The study measured ontological well-being and self-compassion at a single time point, so it cannot show which came first or that one caused the other. It was done in a single center in a training and research hospital, so it may not apply to other settings or regions. The sample was 96 patients, and the authors described it as relatively small. End-stage breast cancer was excluded, so results do not cover patients at that stage. The relationship between the two scores was weak, and ontological well-being sub-scores explained only 19.1% of self-compassion variation.
Declared interests
The authors reported no funding and no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the weak positive association as proof that self-compassion improves ontological well-being after mastectomy. The study measured both at a single time point and did not test an intervention.