EDITORIAL article

Front. Psychiatry, 25 May 2023

Sec. Aging Psychiatry

Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1209709

Editorial: Resilience in chronic disease, volume II

  • School of Nursing, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Resilience, defined as one's ability to “bounce back” from adversity, is an important attribute of patients challenged with chronic disease (, ). The call for submissions on Resilience in Chronic Disease: Volume I received a great response with a total of over 7,100 participants with chronic pain (), cancer (), irritable bowel disease (, ), cardiovascular disease (), neurocognitive disorders (Wang et al.), renal transplant (), rheumatoid arthritis (), as well as caregivers for children with chronic illness (), patients with liver cancer (), and maintenance hemodialysis (). However, most manuscript are performed with a cross-sectional design and the distinct resilience trajectories throughout the course of chronic disease are not well-explored in the first collection ().

In Resilience in chronic disease, volume II, five articles and two systematic reviews with a total of over 2,000 patients and their caregivers are included. Different populations are added to this collection, including patients with stroke (Zhang et al.), breast cancer (Liang et al.), cervical spondylosis (Chu et al.), and disabilities (Abulaiti et al.) as well as pregnant women (Mei et al.). Both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs are utilized in these manuscripts and quantitative and qualitative data are also well-analyzed. In addition, one review conceptualizes the concept of suicide resilience (Wang et al.) and another review summarizes the effect of life review on psychospiritual outcomes among older adults with life-threatening illnesses (Liu et al.). These manuscripts provide insights to raise awareness as well as reduce the detrimental impact of different chronic disease on patients and their caregivers. However, several limitations still remain and should be further addressed in future collections. First, new resilience theory or instrument are still missing and the debate about resilience construction cannot be further advanced (). Second, as for studies designed for associations between resilience and other psychosocial outcomes in different populations, measurement errors should be taken into consideration especially in the moderated mediation analysis. Third, several advanced methods including latent profile analysis and latent growth mixed model can be performed to explore heterogeneity in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies respectively, which can provide the robustness of the conclusion (). Fourth, most resilience instruments and other patient reported outcomes (PROs) are based on Classical Test Theory (CTT) and its hypothesis of linear association between score and ability is not feasible in real world. Thus, several advanced psychometric methods (i.e., multidimensional item response theory, cognitive diagnosis model, etc.) can be utilized to get a more accurate estimation of ability compared to a total score (). Fifth, intervention research designed for enhancing resilience and resilience-related PROs in patients with chronic disease and their caregivers are still scarce in this collection and the efficacy, sustainability and implementation challenges of resilience programs in patient with different chronic diseases should be further explained (). At last, multi-modal and cross-modal methods including Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Computed Tomography, Intracranial Electroencephalography, Magnetoencephalography, etc., can be performed to explore the associations between resilience and brain functions or structure (, ).

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Funding

This research was funded by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 72274043 and 71904033), Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CACM (No. 2021-QNRC2-B08), Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Department of Education of Guangdong Province (No. 2020WTSCX009), Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Guangzhou (No. 2021GZGJ57), Guangdong Research Center for TCM Service and Industrial Development, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (No. 2022ZDA03), and Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (No. 2021SKYB07).

Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to other guest editors of this Research Topic, Jun E. Liu, Anni Wang, Yuli Li, Melissa Thong, Tish Knobf, and numerous reviewers. This Research Topic would not be realized without their inputs and dedication.

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The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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resilience, chronic disease, vulnerability, cognition, intervention, psychosomatic

Citation

Ye ZJ (2023) Editorial: Resilience in chronic disease, volume II. Front. Psychiatry 14:1209709. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1209709

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21 April 2023

Accepted

03 May 2023

Published

25 May 2023

Volume

14 - 2023

Edited and reviewed by

Stefan Borgwardt, University of Lübeck, Germany

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*Correspondence: Zeng Jie Ye

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All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

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