El tratamiento oncológico en el adolescente y su relación con la formación de distorsiones cognitivas sobre su feminidad y masculinidad.

Abstract

The present research contemplated one of the phenomena that has existed since the year 1800 and, nevertheless, its impact continues to the present year: oncological treatment. The research topic was oncological treatment in adolescents and its relation to the formation of cognitive distortions about their femininity and masculinity. Since cancer treatment attacks all cells, it has repercussions at the physical, emotional, social, educational and other levels. The research contemplated the adolescent population because this transitional age shows a change of beliefs, which affects their cognition and new identifications appear in several areas, one of them being femininity and masculinity. The aim of this research was to explain the relationship between oncological treatment in adolescents and the formation of cognitive distortions about their femininity and masculinity, in order to describe the relationship between them, by means of a review of the literature and sources documented from patients and specialists at the SOLCA Hospital in 2023. The Ellis irrational beliefs test showed that adolescent patients aged 12 to 18 years presented cognitive distortions regarding their femininity and masculinity, especially catatrophizing, generalization, discounting the positive, jumping to conclusions, guessing, emotional reasoning and inappropriate guilt. Hoffman's gender scale confirmed that patients feel confident with their own gender identification, so the interviews to specialists who attend these patients and the theoretical foundation showed that cognitive distortions were related to oncologic treatment.