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Article Review on Depression Burden , Psychological Adjustment , and Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer : Patterns over Time

A . Problem statement

The problem statement on which the study was based was not directly stated in the article . However , the main problem statement can be deduced from the given purpose for the study 's completion . Badger Braden , Mishel Longman (2004 ) aimed to answer what the effect of depression burden was on the health-related quality of life and psychological adjustment of women with breast cancer

B . Purpose of the study

Badger

et al (2004 ) state that the purpose of conducting their study was to

examine how level of depression burden influences women 's psychological adjustment and quality of life over time and how depression burden interacted with a community-based oncology support program to influence psychological adjustment and life quality

This means that the study was meant to establish how the weight of depression felt by a woman can affect her in terms of the quality of her life as well as in terms of her psychological well-being . The study was also meant to determine whether the effective manipulation of how much depression is felt by a woman can affect the results of support programs of women cancer patients . These results are restricted to the aspects of quality of life and psychological adjustment

C . Evaluation of the hypotheses , research questions , and objectives

The hypotheses were not explicitly stated in the article . However , the presentation of past literature as well as of the theories on which the study was based indicate that the researchers hypothesized that the findings would show depression burden to inversely affect both the quality of life as well as the psychological development of women with breast cancer . It was also indirectly hypothesized that addressing depression burden in oncology support programs would increase the quality of life and the psychological adjustment of the same population of women . This would indicate a direct relationship between intervention of depression burden and the two latter variables . The hypotheses of the researchers were clearly directional even though they were not explicitly stated . These were also highly consistent with the theoretical framework as these were drawn from the principles of the available literature regarding depression burden and women with cancer Because of the fact that one hypothesis directly deals with oncology support programs , there is a high significance for its application in nursing practice . Having direct implications to intervention programs increases not only the hypothesis ' potential for practical purposes but also of the findings of the study itself

D . Critique of the variables

The study variables were depression burden , psychological adjustment and quality of life . The independent variable in the study is the depression burden . This was defined as the perceived level of problems , trouble , or distress associated with depression as a side effect of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment (Badger et al ,2004 It was measured through the scores of participants on a 16-item side effects checklist . The dependent variables were psychological adjustment and...

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