Resilience and Counseling Received by Colorectal Cancer Patients During a 1-Year Follow-Up: PHASE II of a Longitudinal Study.
Saija Pauliina Sihvola, Lauri Markus Kuosmanen, Santtu Juhani Mikkonen and 1 others
PMID 40244704WHAT IT FOUND
One year after colorectal cancer surgery, resilience showed no positive change and ratings of counseling benefits decreased, although overall counseling was rated mostly good.
Key findings
01One year after surgery, 75% of 51 participants rated total counseling quality as good or excellent.
02Resilience scores did not change significantly within the year (71.22 vs. 71.73, p = .859).
03Among 41 patients answering both phases, ratings of general health and patient attitudes and disease treatment and self-care decreased significantly within the year.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The actual samples were small: 103 at phase I, 51 at phase II, and 41 at both phases, so the findings are hard to generalize. Only 41 participants answered both questionnaires, so the change analysis rested on a small subset. Some questionnaire items had missing responses in both phases. Data were collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the paper says it is not known whether low resilience was caused by the pandemic. Participants were voluntary, and no reminders were sent, which may have affected who responded.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that counseling improved resilience or that resilience improved because of counseling. The study found no significant positive change in resilience, and several counseling benefit ratings decreased over the year.