The relationship of sense of mental coherence and social health with quality of life in women with mastectomy

Subject Areas : social psychology

Shahrbanoo Tajiki ¹ , Sepideh Safarpour Dehkordi ² , Saeed Razaghi ³

1 - MA, Department of Educational Management, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Management, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
3 - Department of Industrial Management, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2018-05-03 Accepted : 2019-07-19 Published : 2019-08-23

Keywords: social health, quality of life, mastectomy, sense of mental coherence,

Abstract :

Present research aimed to investigate the relationship of sense of mental coherence and social health with quality of life in women with mastectomy. This study was a descriptive-analytical from type of correlation. Research population was w omen with mastectomy referring to health and care centers of Shiraz in spring and summer sessions of 2018 year. Based on Tabakhnic and Fidell formula 100 people selected as a sample by available sampling method. Research tools was the questionnaires of sense of mental coherence (Flensborg-Medsen & et al, 2006), social health (Keyes. 1998) and quality of life (World Health Organization, 2010). Data was analyzed by Pearson correlation and Regression with stepwise model methods. The findings showed that the variables of sense of mental coherence and social health had a positive and significant relationship with quality of life in women with mastectomy and could explained the 46 percent of variance the quality of life in women with mastectomy (P