Nível de ansiedade em mulheres diagnosticadas com câncer de mama: revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Introduction: the diagnosis of breast cancer causes a great impact on the life of the woman and her family, which ends up generating feelings such as suffering, anger, anxiety and anxiety. Objective: to identify the level of anxiety of women being treated for breast cancer. Methodology: a bibliographic review was performed through the LILACS, SciELO and CINAHL databases, with the guiding question "What is the anxiety level of women in treatment for breast cancer?"; the articles included in the study were grouped in a summary table, which included the following data: author, study title, year of publication, objective, type of study / method, results found. Results: a total of 100 articles were found during the literature search (20 in SCIELO, 14 in LILACS and 66 in CINAHL), of which 33 were selected by the abstract to be submitted to a complete reading. data base. Of these, 10 eligible articles were selected that fit the theme of this study (5 articles in SciELO, 1 article in LILACS and 4 articles in CINAHL). Of these, 03 (30%) were cross-sectional studies and clinical trials, 04 (40%) for both Spanish and English presentation, 06 (60%) articles used the HADS scale for anxiety measurement and 06 (60%) did not use any method of intervention. Conclusion: the level of anxiety presented by the majority of the women in treatment for breast cancer was between moderate and severe, showing an important and very frequent psychological suffering in this process of coping with the disease. Anxiety appears to be very harmful to these women, and the management of the negative feelings presented by them often falls into the background by health professionals who end up giving priority to pharmacological treatment.