Research Article
Strategies to Promote Empowerment Status of Breast Cancer Women
Table 3
Mean scores of dimensions of empowerment of the studied breast cancer patients.
| | Dimensions | Mean | SD |
| 1 | Recourses | 3.42 | 0.82 | 2 | Information | 3.33 | 0.95 | 3 | Participation in decision-making | 3.25 | 1.09 | 4 | Family support | 4.28 | 0.57 | 5 | Support of friends | 3.78 | 0.99 | 6 | Interaction with the physician | 4.36 | 0.53 | 7 | Patient perception of the physician’s ability to manage the disease | 3.20 | 0.57 | 8 | Patient perception of health professionals’ willingness to let him/her participate in decision-making | 2.53 | 1.03 | 9 | Complementary therapies | 1.93 | 0.88 | 10 | Spiritual beliefs | 4.19 | 0.88 | 11 | Acceptance and adaptation to disease | 4.15 | 0.66 | 12 | Patient perception of usefulness to friends | 3.99 | 0.83 | 13 | Patient perception of usefulness to family | 4.13 | 0.67 | 14 | Having a job | 3.52 | 1.30 | | Total | 3.58 | 0.41 |
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