Table 1.

Studies included in the systematic review.

Study	Design	Sample	Aim	Age (Mean or Range)	Job-Employed (%)	Married (%)	Therapy Received	Disease Duration (Mean or Range)	Measures	Main Results
Kállay [42]	Case–control study	N = 72 Women with breast or cervical cancer	Investigate the relationship between meaning in life, positive affect and benefit-finding, post-traumatic growth, depression, negative affect, and coping in female cancer patients	53.66	NA	NA	NA	From 10 to 28 months	LRI; B-COPE	Acceptance was significantly associated with meaning in life (r = 0.38; p <0.01).
Kurowska et al. [41]	Cross-sectional study	N = 100 Women with breast cancer after surgery	Define the relationship between the level of coherence and illness acceptance in breast cancer patients after mastectomy	29–74	46.0	58.0	100% received mastectomy	The mean duration of cancer disease was 1.5 years	SOC-29; AIS	Illness acceptance was significantly associated with meaningfulness (r = 0.204). The highest scores in illness acceptance were obtained by the women who reported high levels of sense of meaning (33.36 ± 3.89)
Zhang et al. [40]	Cross-sectional study	N = 292 Women with breast cancer after surgery	Evaluate disability acceptance in women with breast cancer and determine the main variables associatedwith disability acceptance	53.24	57.2	82.9	25.7% received breast-conserving therapy; 74.3% received mastectomy	33.6%: less than 1 year; 38.2%: 1–2 years ago; 28.2%: 2–5 years ago.	SOC-13; AOD	Acceptance of disability was significantly and positively associated with meaningfulness (r = 0.196). Moreover, meaning did not predict acceptance of disability (β = 0.02; p = 0.576).

Note: NA = not applicable; LRI = Life Regard Index; B-COPE = Brief COPE; SOC-13 = 13-item Sense of Coherence Scale; AOD = Acceptance of Disability Scale—revised; SOC-29 = 29-item Sense of Coherence Scale; AIS = Acceptance of Illness Scale.