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BACKGROUND: Breast cancer patients must undergo a series of therapies that take a long time with painful side effects. Fellow breast cancer sufferers are people who can provide psychological support to patients. Cancer patients need to get support from others to always motivate, encourage, motivate, control, and assist cancer patients. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop a model of webinar-based empowerment to increase optimism of breast cancer survivors in Medan. METHODS: The type of research used is action research with 78 participants. There are two types of instruments for data collection, the focus group discussion (FGD) question guide and the Revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) instrument. Six people were used for in-depth interviews and 72 people for the implementation of optimism socialization through webinars. RESULTS: The results of the optimism assessment showed that 83% of participants had positive optimism after the webinar activity on tips and tricks “Successful controlling emotions with Optimism.” Based on the results of the paired t test, p < 0.0001 was obtained. This shows that webinars can affect the optimism of breast cancer survivors. CONCLUSIONS: Fellow breast cancer patients are needed to motivate each other and share experiences in dealing with breast cancer treatment and how to prevent complications or metastases. The role of fellow breast cancer sufferers is currently very easy to do with webinar-based empowerment. Webinars have the effect of increasing optimism. |
