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