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揭示乳腺癌患者心理资本特征及其对生活质量的影响:潜在剖面分析

 

Authors Cui C , Liu H, Wang L

Received 18 May 2025

Accepted for publication 8 October 2025

Published 22 October 2025 Volume 2025:17 Pages 2429—2440

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S537692

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 4

Editor who approved publication: Professor Bilikere Dwarakanath

Chunying Cui,1 Hairong Liu,1 Lie Wang2 

1Department of Management, School of Humanities and Management, Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, Anhui, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

Correspondence: Chunying Cui, Email ccy203028@163.com

Purpose: Our study aimed to identify the profiles of psychological capital (PsyCap), explore its influencing factors, and examine the association between PsyCap and quality of life (QoL) among breast cancer (BC) patients.
Methods: A total of 229 BC patients completed our survey questionnaire. The questionnaire package included general sociodemographic and clinical information, the Psychological Capital Questionnaire for patients with Cancer (PCQ-C), and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B). Latent profile analysis was adopted to identify PsyCap profiles. Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze each profile’s sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and ANOVA was used to explore the relationships between PsyCap profiles and QoL.
Results: Three profiles of PsyCap were identified, including the low PsyCap, moderate PsyCap, and high PsyCap groups, which comprised 23.1, 48.1, and 28.8% of the sample, respectively. K-means clustering further supported the categorization of PsyCap into three distinct profiles. Regression results showed that the low PsyCap group was more likely to be unemployed, a risk factor affecting BC patients’ PsyCap. Compared with the low PsyCap group, the moderate PsyCap (Beta=0.209, P=0.002) and high PsyCap (Beta=0.664, P< 0.001) groups possessed better QoL.
Conclusion: PsyCap is classifiably heterogeneous among patients with BC, which suggests that healthcare professionals should give full consideration to the impact of unemployment on the PsyCap groups. The PsyCap profiles affected BC patients’ QoL, so healthcare professionals can identify BC patients with poor QoL based on their PsyCap and provide them with psychological counseling services and psychological healing groups to help them improve their mental and physical health.

Keywords: psychological capital, quality of life, latent profile analysis, breast cancer