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Zwiers A, Campbell C, Evans M, Kirkwood K. Constructing the Meaning of Survivor With Former Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs 2014; 32:143-52. [DOI: 10.1177/1043454214553708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Although the term survivor is frequently used in cancer discourse, the meaning of survivor and how people identify with this term can be difficult to understand. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the meaning of the term survivor from the perspective of young adults who have experienced a pediatric brain tumor (PBT). A constructivist grounded theory was utilized in this study with 6 young adults who had a PBT. This study also used semistructured interviews with participants who also completed reflective journals, which were focused on the survivor concept. Data were analyzed through coding strategies and constant comparative methods. Findings present 4 major themes of process: ( a) reviewing the illness experience, ( b) qualifying as a survivor, ( c) thinking positive, and ( d) being changed. These themes are important to consider in the construction, interpretation, and understanding of how the majority of this population do not identify with the current social use of the term survivor. Clearly, there is a need for a clearer understanding of survivor and how it specifically applies to those who have had a PBT. Everyone should remain conscious and consider how a broad, generalizing term such as survivor may influence a person’s attitude and advocacy toward their health.
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Foster C, Myall M, Scott I, Sayers M, Brindle L, Cotterell P, Addington-Hall J, Hopkinson J, Payne S, Robinson J. ‘You can't say, “what about me?” I'm not the one with cancer’: information and support needs of relatives. Psychooncology 2014; 24:705-11. [DOI: 10.1002/pon.3716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Revised: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 10/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Claire Foster
- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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- School of Health Care Sciences; Cardiff University; Cardiff UK
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- Faculty of Health and Medicine; Lancaster University; Lancaster UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences; University of Southampton; Southampton UK
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Gibson AF, Lee C, Crabb S. ‘If you grow them, know them’: Discursive constructions of the pink ribbon culture of breast cancer in the Australian context. FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY 2014. [DOI: 10.1177/0959353514548100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The ‘pink ribbon culture’ dominates understandings of breast cancer in Western societies. We describe this as an ‘illness culture’, consisting of neoliberal discourses and practices, which construct the breast cancer experience. We take a feminist post-structuralist approach to review current breast cancer lay materials available to women in Australia, to examine how breast cancer is discursively constructed within this context. Further, we consider how women with breast cancer are positioned and what the implications are for women’s lives. We discuss neoliberal discourses of ‘individual responsibility and empowerment’ and ‘optimism’, and the central practices that focus on individual health behaviours and survivorship. This illness culture has productive and restrictive effects for women’s subjectivity. Whilst women are positioned as ‘empowered’ regarding their health, this comes at the price of self-regulation and responsibility. Support and information additionally reposition women in feminine, heteronormative ways, whilst excluding women who do not fit narrow cultural stereotypes.
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- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia
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- Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Australia
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Hulbert-Williams NJ, Storey L, Wilson KG. Psychological interventions for patients with cancer: psychological flexibility and the potential utility of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2014; 24:15-27. [PMID: 25100576 DOI: 10.1111/ecc.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cancer is an illness affecting patients' physical and psychosocial well-being: high numbers report problematic levels of distress at many points through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Conclusive evidence for the long-term benefits of psychological interventions is lacking and this may be because (1) they employ a too limited scope of underlying therapeutic model; or (2) that they are too focused on improving psychopathological outcomes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) may add components not emphasised elsewhere and may provide a more suitable model of adjustment and coping. Following a comprehensive literature search a theoretical and conceptual discussion of the potential for ACT-based oncology interventions is presented. Only a small number of studies have purposively studied the application of ACT within the cancer setting, but this nonetheless presents useful pilot data. The data demonstrate potential clinical- and cost-effectiveness for a range of patients, including those with psychological comorbidity. Within the context of wider cancer adjustment, ACT offers an intervention framework to appropriately build upon the strong empirical base already established for Mindfulness within this specific patient population. The evidence available suggests that the underlying framework of ACT offers an intervention model that is potentially more suited to the individualistic nature of cancer adjustment.
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Boehmer U, Glickman M, Winter M, Clark MA. Coping and Benefit Finding among Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors of Different Sexual Orientations. WOMEN & THERAPY 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2014.897548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Teasdale E, Santer M, Geraghty AWA, Little P, Yardley L. Public perceptions of non-pharmaceutical interventions for reducing transmission of respiratory infection: systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies. BMC Public Health 2014; 14:589. [PMID: 24920395 PMCID: PMC4063987 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Non-pharmaceutical public health interventions may provide simple, low-cost, effective ways of minimising the transmission and impact of acute respiratory infections in pandemic and non-pandemic contexts. Understanding what influences the uptake of non-pharmaceutical interventions such as hand and respiratory hygiene, mask wearing and social distancing could help to inform the development of effective public health advice messages. The aim of this synthesis was to explore public perceptions of non-pharmaceutical interventions that aim to reduce the transmission of acute respiratory infections. Methods Five online databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, EMBASE and Web of Science) were systematically searched. Reference lists of articles were also examined. We selected papers that used a qualitative research design to explore perceptions and beliefs about non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission of acute respiratory infections. We excluded papers that only explored how health professionals or children viewed non-pharmaceutical respiratory infection control. Three authors performed data extraction and assessment of study quality. Thematic analysis and components of meta-ethnography were adopted to synthesise findings. Results Seventeen articles from 16 studies in 9 countries were identified and reviewed. Seven key themes were identified: perceived benefits of non-pharmaceutical interventions, perceived disadvantages of non-pharmaceutical interventions, personal and cultural beliefs about infection transmission, diagnostic uncertainty in emerging respiratory infections, perceived vulnerability to infection, anxiety about emerging respiratory infections and communications about emerging respiratory infections. The synthesis showed that some aspects of non-pharmaceutical respiratory infection control (particularly hand and respiratory hygiene) were viewed as familiar and socially responsible actions to take. There was ambivalence about adopting isolation and personal distancing behaviours in some contexts due to their perceived adverse impact and potential to attract social stigma. Common perceived barriers included beliefs about infection transmission, personal vulnerability to respiratory infection and concerns about self-diagnosis in emerging respiratory infections. Conclusions People actively evaluate non-pharmaceutical interventions in terms of their perceived necessity, efficacy, acceptability, and feasibility. To enhance uptake, it will be necessary to address key barriers, such as beliefs about infection transmission, rejection of personal risk of infection and concern about the potential costs and stigma associated with some interventions.
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- Emma Teasdale
- Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
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Bernays S, Rhodes T, Jankovic Terzic K. Embodied accounts of HIV and hope: using audio diaries with interviews. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2014; 24:629-640. [PMID: 24667100 DOI: 10.1177/1049732314528812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Capturing the complexity of the experience of chronic illness over time presents significant methodological and ethical challenges. In this article, we present methodological and substantive insights from a longitudinal qualitative study with 20 people living with HIV in Serbia. We used both repeated in-depth interviews and audio diaries to explore the role of hope in coping with and managing HIV. Using thematic longitudinal analysis, we found that the audio diaries produced distinctive, embodied accounts that straddled the public/private divide and engaged with alternative social scripts of illness experience. We suggest that this enabled less socially anticipated accounts of coping, hoping, and distress to be spoken and shared. We argue that examining the influence of different methods on accounting not only illustrates the value of qualitative mixed-method study designs but also provides crucial insights to better understand the lived experience of chronic illness.
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- Sarah Bernays
- 1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Hodder K, Chur-Hansen A, Parker A. A Thematic Study of the Role of Social Support in the Body Image of Burn Survivors. Health Psychol Res 2014; 2:1196. [PMID: 26973929 PMCID: PMC4768557 DOI: 10.4081/hpr.2014.1196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2013] [Revised: 03/17/2013] [Accepted: 03/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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There is evidence that social support is important for the development and maintenance of body image satisfaction for people who have sustained burn injuries. This qualitative study explored the specific mechanisms by which social support impacts the body image satisfaction of burn survivors, drawing on nine participants’ in depth accounts. Participants were recruited through a burns unit at a public hospital in South Australia. Interviews were conducted with nine female burn survivors aged between 24 and 65 (mean age 44.6). Participants described their perceptions about their appearance post burn and their social support experiences. Four themes were identified: acceptance, social comparison, talking about appearance concerns, and the gaze of others. Results indicate that for these participants, social support was an important factor in coming to terms with changes in appearance, specifically support that helps to minimise feelings of difference. Unhelpful aspects of social support were also identified included feeling that suffering was being dismissed and resenting the perceived expectation from supports to be positive. Social supports are important to consider in relation to body image for those working with people who have survived burn injuries.
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- Kellie Hodder
- School of Psychology and School of Medicine, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide , Australia
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- Burns Unit, The Royal Adelaide Hospital , Adelaide, Australia
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Klafke N, Eliott JA, Olver IN, Wittert GA. The role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) routines and rituals in men with cancer and their significant others (SOs): a qualitative investigation. Support Care Cancer 2013; 22:1319-31. [PMID: 24366225 DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-2090-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Accepted: 12/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PURPOSE Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is frequently used in cancer patients, often with contribution of the significant others (SOs), but without consultation of healthcare professionals. This research explored how cancer patients integrate and maintain CAM use in their everyday life, and how SOs are involved in it. METHODS In this qualitative study, male participants were selected from a preceding Australian survey on CAM use in men with cancer (94 % response rate and 86 % consent rate for follow-up interview). Semistructured interviews were conducted with 26 men and 24 SOs until data saturation was reached. Interview transcripts were coded and analyzed thematically, thereby paying close attention to participants' language in use. RESULTS A major theme associated with high CAM use was "CAM routines and rituals," as it was identified that men with cancer practiced CAM as (1) functional routines, (2) meaningful rituals, and (3) mental/spiritual routines or/and rituals. Regular CAM use was associated with intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits: CAM routines provided men with certainty and control, and CAM rituals functioned for cancer patients and their SOs as a means to create meaning, thereby working to counter fear and uncertainty consequent upon a diagnosis of cancer. SOs contributed most to men's uptake and maintenance of dietary-based CAM in ritualistic form resulting in interpersonal bonding and enhanced closeness. CONCLUSIONS CAM routines and rituals constitute key elements in cancer patients' regular and satisfied CAM use, and they promote familial strengthening. Clinicians and physicians can convey these benefits to patient consultations, further promoting the safe and effective use of CAM.
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- Nadja Klafke
- School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, Level 4, Hughes Building, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia,
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Rennoldson M, Brennan J, Tolosa I, Ismail T. A discursive psychology analysis of emotional support for men with colorectal cancer. Psychol Health 2013; 28:1323-36. [DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2013.807928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Patton DJ, Busch RM, Yee KM, Kubu CS, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Ford PJ. Hope language in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery. Epilepsy Behav 2013; 29:90-5. [PMID: 23941902 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Revised: 06/07/2013] [Accepted: 07/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Candidates for epilepsy surgery often use the word "hope" to express their attitudes and beliefs about surgery. However, studies suggest that hope has a multiplicity of meanings that are not well understood. The goal of this analysis was to evaluate whether Candidates for epilepsy surgery use hope language to express a traditional, expected optimism during presurgery interviews. We examined patients' uses of the word "hope" and its derivatives (hoping, hopeful, hopefully) through a secondary analysis of 37 interviews of adult patients prior to epilepsy surgery. Approximately 1/3 of all hope statements were coded as expressions of optimism, while 1/3 were not optimistic, and 1/3 had unclear meanings. In addition to traditionally optimistic uses of the term, other themes surrounding use of this word included ideas of dread, worry, uncertainty, and temporizing language. This information may help clinicians communicate more effectively with patients, enhancing the informed consent process for epilepsy surgery.
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- D J Patton
- Cleveland Clinic's NeuroEthics Program, Cleveland, OH, USA
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This study aimed to synthesise the illness narratives of individuals living with a pituitary tumour. Eight adults with a pituitary tumour were recruited from an endocrinology service in the north-west of England. A narrative methodology was adopted which investigated elements of the individual narratives such as metaphor and structure but which also aimed to produce a joint account of experience in this particular illness context by extracting themes across the stories; these are presented as part of a chronological narrative. However, the resulting group story was also analysed in terms of different types of narrative plots. The group narrative started from the recognition of symptoms and then diagnosis though treatment to post-treatment and future plans. In terms of narrative plots, one notable element of the joint narrative was the flow between the culturally dominant restitution narrative, where participants focused on treatment and recovery and the chaos narrative when recovery did not seem possible. The findings contain many elements consistent with previous research; however, the use of a celebrity figure to communicate about the illness experience and a perception that objects or individuals should not be taken at face value emerged as more novel findings.
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- Jane Simpson
- a Clinical Psychology , School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University , Lancaster , UK
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McDonough MH, Sabiston CM, Wrosch C. Predicting changes in posttraumatic growth and subjective well-being among breast cancer survivors: the role of social support and stress. Psychooncology 2013; 23:114-20. [DOI: 10.1002/pon.3380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2013] [Revised: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Meghan H. McDonough
- Department of Health and Kinesiology; Purdue University; West Lafayette IN USA
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education; The University of Toronto; Toronto ON Canada
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- Department of Psychology; Concordia University; Montreal QC Canada
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McCreery E, Costello J. Providing nutritional support for patients with cancer cachexia. Int J Palliat Nurs 2013; 19:32-7. [DOI: 10.12968/ijpn.2013.19.1.32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- in Palliative Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Ruthig JC, Holfeld B, Hanson BL. The role of positive thinking in social perceptions of cancer outcomes. Psychol Health 2012; 27:1244-58. [DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2012.666549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Baker P, Beesley H, Dinwoodie R, Fletcher I, Ablett J, Holcombe C, Salmon P. 'You're putting thoughts into my head': a qualitative study of the readiness of patients with breast, lung or prostate cancer to address emotional needs through the first 18 months after diagnosis. Psychooncology 2012; 22:1402-10. [PMID: 22890719 DOI: 10.1002/pon.3156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2012] [Revised: 07/09/2012] [Accepted: 07/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the readiness of patients to address emotional needs up to 18 months following a diagnosis of breast, lung or prostate cancer. METHOD Patients (N = 42) attending pre-treatment, treatment and follow-up clinics were provided with information designed to help them manage their emotional reactions to cancer. Patients were interviewed 3-4 weeks later about their emotional experience of cancer and their attitudes towards managing emotional problems. Qualitative data analysis followed a constant comparative approach. RESULTS Patients early in the cancer trajectory, who had not yet been engaged in chemotherapy or radiotherapy, described emotional distress as a temporary and understandable reaction that did not warrant professional intervention. They valued knowing that support was available, but did not want to use it, and were reluctant to acknowledge or address emotional needs. Conversely, patients currently or recently engaged in treatment readily acknowledged their emotional needs and welcomed help to address these. CONCLUSIONS Drawing on social cognitive and other theories, we suggest that engagement in physical treatment and care allows patients to address emotional needs following a cancer diagnosis. Guidance that emotional needs should routinely be assessed and addressed at key points in the cancer trajectory should therefore be implemented cautiously when patients are only recently diagnosed; psychological intervention may be less appropriate at this time than later.
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- Paul Baker
- Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Leydon GM, Guerin M, Eyles C, Jacques L, Darlison L. ‘What matters to me’: an international online survey of people treating, affected by and living with lung cancer. Future Oncol 2012; 8:883-96. [DOI: 10.2217/fon.12.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Aim: Lung cancer is a common malignancy that occurs worldwide and generally has a poor prognosis. Its diagnosis presents significant physical and emotional challenges for patients and their family, friends and caregivers (FFCs). This study aimed to gain insights into patients’ and FFCs’ perspectives regarding lung cancer and its treatment, as well as physicians’ perceptions of patients’ thoughts about their illness. Patients & methods: An international online survey was conducted, assessing 113 patients diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer, 70 corresponding FFCs and 188 treating physicians. Data were collected using an interactive internet-based tool, in order to establish respondents’ priorities. Results: Interesting differences between patients’, FFCs’ and physicians’ perspectives on lung cancer were revealed. For all respondents, the primary feeling about lung cancer was described as “sadness”. Patients were more likely to express a determination to be positive, whereas fear was a common response for FFCs and was a perspective also reported by physicians. Physicians’ views on how they had communicated disease information were more positive than those of the patients, with many patients detecting physician hesitancy to communicate negative news. Conclusion: This study provides important insights into the self-reported thoughts and feelings of patients with lung cancer, their personal networks of FFCs and the physicians who care for them.
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- Geraldine M Leydon
- Primary Medical Care Group, Primary Care & Population Science Unit, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Aldermoor Health Centre, Southampton, SO16 5ST, UK
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- Aintree Chest Centre, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK
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- Complementary & Integrated Medicine Research Unit, Primary Care & Population Sciences, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton, UK
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- Mesothelioma UK, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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“But Then I Learned…”: Weight loss surgery patients negotiate surgery discourses. Soc Sci Med 2011; 73:1230-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2010] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 07/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Olson RE. Managing hope, denial or temporal anomie? Informal cancer carers’ accounts of spouses’ cancer diagnoses. Soc Sci Med 2011; 73:904-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.12.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2010] [Revised: 12/06/2010] [Accepted: 12/09/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Neal DM, McKenzie PJ. Putting the pieces together: endometriosis blogs, cognitive authority, and collaborative information behavior. J Med Libr Assoc 2011; 99:127-34. [PMID: 21464850 DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.2.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE A discourse analysis was conducted of peer-written blogs about the chronic illness endometriosis to understand how bloggers present information sources and make cases for and against the authority of those sources. METHODS Eleven blogs that were authored by endometriosis patients and focused exclusively or primarily on the authors' experiences with endometriosis were selected. After selecting segments in which the bloggers invoked forms of knowledge and sources of evidence, the text was discursively analyzed to reveal how bloggers establish and dispute the authority of the sources they invoke. RESULTS When discussing and refuting authority, the bloggers invoked many sources of evidence, including experiential, peer-provided, biomedical, and intuitive ones. Additionally, they made and disputed claims of cognitive authority via two interpretive repertoires: a concern about the role and interests of the pharmaceutical industry and an understanding of endometriosis as extremely idiosyncratic. Affective authority of information sources was also identified, which presented as social context, situational similarity, or aesthetic or spiritual factors. CONCLUSIONS Endometriosis patients may find informational value in blogs, especially for affective support and epistemic experience. Traditional notions of authority might need to be revised for the online environment. Guidelines for evaluating the authority of consumer health information, informed by established readers' advisory practices, are suggested.
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- Diane M Neal
- Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
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Hulbert-Williams NJ, Hulbert-Williams L, Morrison V, Neal RD, Wilkinson C. The Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale: re-analysis of its psychometric properties in a sample of 160 mixed cancer patients. Psychooncology 2011; 21:792-7. [DOI: 10.1002/pon.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2011] [Revised: 04/03/2011] [Accepted: 04/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Department of Psychology; School of Applied Sciences; University of Wolverhampton; Wulfruna Street; Wolverhampton; WV1 1LY; UK
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- School of Psychology; Bangor University; Brigantia Building, Penrallt Road; Bangor; LL57 2AS; UK
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- Department of Primary Care and Public Health; North Wales Clinical School; Cardiff University; Gwenfro Building, Wrexham Technology Park, Croesnewydd Road; Wrexham; LL13 7YP; UK
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- Department of Primary Care and Public Health; North Wales Clinical School; Cardiff University; Gwenfro Building, Wrexham Technology Park, Croesnewydd Road; Wrexham; LL13 7YP; UK
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Powell DM, Gartner MC. Applications of Personality to the Management and Conservation of Nonhuman Animals. FROM GENES TO ANIMAL BEHAVIOR 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-53892-9_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Smithson J, Britten N, Paterson C, Lewith G, Evans M. The experience of using complementary therapies after a diagnosis of cancer: a qualitative synthesis. Health (London) 2010; 16:19-39. [PMID: 21177711 DOI: 10.1177/1363459310371081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This article describes a qualitative synthesis of published research on cancer patients' experiences of complementary therapies. We conducted a systematic search for qualitative studies on this subject published between 1998 and 2007. Twenty-six refereed journal articles met the inclusion criteria. These 26 articles were repeatedly read by the research team and key concepts emerging from them were identified. Differences and variations were examined in association with treatment, therapy type and by stage of cancer (early stage, mid-treatment, advanced cancer, palliative care and long term 'survivors'). Six overarching concepts were located, which describe the key aspects of patients' experiences of the use of complementary and alternative medicine after a diagnosis of cancer: Connection; Control; Well-being; Transformation; Integration; and Polarization. These are described in a 'line of argument' synthesis, and differences associated with treatment type and stage of disease are noted. The findings are presented in a table showing the six concepts according to treatment type and stage; as a composite story; and in a diagrammatic model showing the individual, practitioner and organizational levels. The synthesis identified various specific ways in which complementary therapies supported cancer patients, as well as occasional negative effects. The most notable barrier was the perceived polarization of complementary therapies and biomedicine; patients reported better experiences in integrated settings.
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- Janet Smithson
- Penninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Chien TW, Wang WC, Chien CC, Hwang WS. Rasch analysis of positive changes following adversity in cancer patients attending community support groups. Psychooncology 2010; 20:98-105. [DOI: 10.1002/pon.1713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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McCreaddie M, Payne S, Froggatt K. Ensnared by positivity: A constructivist perspective on ‘being positive’ in cancer care. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2010; 14:283-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2010.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2009] [Revised: 03/07/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Adams T. The social construction of risk by community psychiatric nurses and family carers for people with dementia. HEALTH RISK & SOCIETY 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/13698570120079903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Veen M, te Molder HFM, Gremmen B, van Woerkum C. Quitting is not an option: An analysis of online diet talk between celiac disease patients. Health (London) 2010; 14:23-40. [PMID: 20051428 DOI: 10.1177/1363459309347478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This is an empirical study of the way in which celiac disease patients manage the risk of gluten intake in their everyday life.The article examines naturally occurring conversational data in order to study how patients cope interactionally with constantly being at risk in their day-to-day living. They reject quitting the diet as a valid option, and instead construct a 'diet world' in which dietary transgression is presented as an integrated part of everyday life. In this way, patients can manage occasional diet lapses without putting the validity of the diet itself at stake. By examining how the gluten-free diet is treated in interaction, we find out more about the pre-existing everyday strategies that have to be taken into account when new therapies are being introduced.
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- Mario Veen
- Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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McKenzie PJ, Oliphant T. Informing evidence: claimsmaking in midwives' and clients' talk about interventions. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2010; 20:29-41. [PMID: 19940086 DOI: 10.1177/1049732309355591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Communication for informed choice is particularly challenging in clinical settings such as direct-entry midwifery, where the care model embraces diverse therapies and forms of knowledge. We identified three discursive moves (explanation, invocation, and evaluation) that Ontario midwives and clients used in making claims about proposed interventions. The analysis was informed by an understanding of communication as an interactionally situated and socially constructed interpretive practice. Both midwives and women called on the authority of biomedical discourse, but they also turned to sources such as women's wisdom to support their cases. The flexible use of these moves afforded participants considerable latitude in accepting or rejecting forms of evidence as authoritative. However, strategies designed to empower clients in making choices could unintentionally serve to enhance the authority of the care provider. Talk about interventions brings into view both the knowledge systems and the broader relations within which regulated midwifery practice operates.
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- Pamela J McKenzie
- Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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CECIL R, Mc CAUGHAN E, PARAHOO K. ‘It's hard to take because I am a man's man’: an ethnographic exploration of cancer and masculinity. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2009; 19:501-9. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2009.01085.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Monzoni C, Reuber M. Conversational displays of coping resources in clinical encounters between patients with epilepsy and neurologists: a pilot study. Epilepsy Behav 2009; 16:652-9. [PMID: 19854684 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2009] [Revised: 07/29/2009] [Accepted: 08/06/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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How people with epilepsy (PWE) cope is an important determinant of their resilience to seizures. More adaptive ways of coping are an independent predictor of health-related quality of life. Coping styles have typically been assessed using self-report questionnaires. However, such questionnaires fail to capture the complexity of the phenomenon of coping. This study explores whether close examination of the interactional and linguistic resources used by PWE can be used to enhance our understanding of coping behavior as it naturally emerges in semistructured, first clinical encounters between patients with refractory epilepsy and a neurologist. At a more superficial (topical) level of analysis, our examination of nine interactions reveals that PWE tend to present themselves as resourceful individuals who are in control of their disorder (which thereby becomes less significant). In contrast, the analysis of more subtle linguistic and interactional features indicates that some PWE actually find their disorder quite difficult to deal with.
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- Chiara Monzoni
- Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK.
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Rogers A, Gately C, Kennedy A, Sanders C. Are some more equal than others? Social comparison in self-management skills training for long-term conditions. Chronic Illn 2009; 5:305-17. [PMID: 19933248 DOI: 10.1177/1742395309350384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Social comparisons influence self-evaluation and social and psychological adjustment to illness but are under-explored in relation to self-skills training group situations. METHODS A longitudinal qualitative study embedded within an RCT of a national programme of lay led self-care support in England (Department of Health, 2001). In-depth interviews were undertaken with a purposeful maximum variation sample of recruits. Data were analysed thematically. Three key themes emerged highlighting (1) the experience of group participation and interaction, (2) the process and (3) function of social comparison. RESULTS Data highlight the salience of social comparison as an underlying feature of the group dynamics of self-care skills training. The nature, dimensions and scope of social comparisons extend beyond the cognitive states and dimensions traditionally forming the focus of social-psychological approaches to social comparison to include wider dimensions including entitlement to resources. The results confirm the tendency to make positive comparisons that result in beneficial self-evaluations. However, positive comparisons allow respondents to present themselves as socially and morally worthy, which may act to mask the identification of appropriate need and inequalities. CONCLUSION Social comparisons function both as an accurate representation of internal cognitive states but also constitutes identity work involving competing values and moral requirements. We show that even those who report significant needs will sometimes portray themselves in a way that suggests positive social comparisons, which fit with a rationed and morally prescriptive and acceptable view of entitlement to NHS services. Such insights suggest that social comparisons in initiatives such as the EPP may be beneficial for some but exacerbate rather than alleviate health inequalities in long-term condition management for others.
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- Anne Rogers
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre and National Institute of Health Research School for Primary Care Research, 5th Floor, Williamson Bldg, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
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Rasmussen DM, Hansen HP, Elverdam B. How cancer survivors experience their changed body encountering others. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2009; 14:154-9. [PMID: 19892598 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2009.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2009] [Revised: 09/29/2009] [Accepted: 10/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Psychosocial cancer research illustrates how women treated for breast cancer experience physical changes in their bodies and the way they perceive, that, others see their body. But how patients with other types of cancer have experienced changes in their bodies and how this affects their relationship with others is less researched. OBJECTIVES To explore how cancer survivors with different types of cancer and cancer treatment, experience and handle their changed body, especially when meeting others, and how this influences their everyday life of survivorship, i.e. long after treatment has been completed. METHODS Participant observation at a Cancer Rehabilitation Centre (CRC). Of the observed participants 23 were selected and interviewed twice. RESULTS Many participants had a changed body due to the cancer and its treatment. When the cancer survivors meet others they experience that their changed body means that they are avoided, looked at in specific ways, or greeted with a specific compliment. The verbal and nonverbal language that the cancer survivors are met with indicates the existence of a specific discursive aesthetic in relation to the disease and the changed body. This discursive aesthetic represents a silence and secrecy about cancer, which makes it impossible for survivors to talk about their experiences with cancer and a changed body. CONCLUSION The changed body not only represents the physical sign of cancer, it also represents the social presence and representation of cancer. The analysis gives an insight into general questions of meaning related to the changed body in late modernity.
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- Dorte Malig Rasmussen
- Research Unit of General Practice and Health, Man and Society, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløwsvej 9 A, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
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WINTERLING J, SIDENVALL B, GLIMELIUS B, NORDIN K. Expectations for the recovery period after cancer treatment - a qualitative study. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2009; 18:585-93. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2008.00933.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This paper aims to illustrate what discourse analysis is and how it can contribute to our understanding of family practice. Firstly, we describe what 'discourse analysis' is, mapping the discourse analysis terrain by discussing four studies relevant to primary care to illustrate different methodological approaches and key concepts. We then address the practicalities of how to actually do discourse analysis, providing readers with a worked example using one particular approach. Thirdly, we touch on some common debates about discursive research. We conclude by advocating that researchers and practitioners take up the challenge of understanding, utilizing and extending the field of discourse studies within family practice.
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- Sara E Shaw
- Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, UK.
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Salsman JM, Segerstrom SC, Brechting EH, Carlson CR, Andrykowski MA. Posttraumatic growth and PTSD symptomatology among colorectal cancer survivors: a 3-month longitudinal examination of cognitive processing. Psychooncology 2009; 18:30-41. [PMID: 18481837 DOI: 10.1002/pon.1367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The experience of cancer can be understood as a psychosocial transition, producing both positive and negative outcomes. Cognitive processing may facilitate psychological adjustment. METHODS Fifty-five post-treatment, colorectal cancer survivors (M=65.9 years old; SD=12.7), an average of 13 months post-diagnosis, were recruited from a state cancer registry and completed baseline and 3-month questionnaires assessing dispositional (social desirability), cognitive processing (cognitive intrusions, cognitive rehearsal), and psychological adjustment variables (posttraumatic growth (PTG), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology, depression, anxiety, positive affectivity). RESULTS PTSD symptomatology was positively associated with depression, anxiety, and negatively associated with positive affectivity. In contrast, PTG scores were unrelated to PTSD symptomatology, depression, anxiety, and positive affectivity. In addition, PTG was independent of social desirability. Notably, after controlling for age at diagnosis and education, multiple regression analyses indicated that cognitive processing (intrusions, rehearsal) was differentially predictive of psychological adjustment. Baseline cognitive intrusions predicted 3-month PTSD symptomatology and there was a trend for baseline cognitive rehearsal predicting 3-month PTG. CONCLUSIONS Additional research is needed to clarify the association between PTG and other indices of psychological adjustment, further delineate the nature of cognitive processing, and understand the trajectory of PTG over time for survivors with colorectal cancer.
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- John M Salsman
- Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
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Women with breast cancer and gendered limits and boundaries: Art therapy as a ‘safe space’ for enacting alternative subject positions. ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2008.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Sinding C, Wiernikowski J. Disruption foreclosed: older women's cancer narratives. Health (London) 2008; 12:389-411. [DOI: 10.1177/1363459308090055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A challenge has emerged to Bury's (1982) conceptualization of chronic illness as biographical disruption. The idea that certain life circumstances — notably older age or the presence of significant health and social problems — render the experience of chronic illness biographically `continuous' or `reinforcing' has gained currency in the social study of chronic illness. This article draws from a qualitative study with women diagnosed with cancer in their 70s or 80s. Respondents' narratives suggest that a long life, especially a life characterized by struggle, does provide a context for the assessment of cancer as non-disruptive. However, the study offers evidence that a long life characterized by sufficiency may also be associated with an assessment of cancer as non-disruptive, and that older age and hardship sometimes render chronic illness especially problematic. Centrally, the article examines respondents' oft-cited commitment to avoid `dwelling' on illness, highlighting how broad cultural and moral discourses, patterns of social interaction and structures of power combine to foreclose older women's accounts of disruption.
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Mizrahi I, Kaplan G, Milshtein E, Reshef BP, Baruch GB. Coping simultaneously with 2 stressors: immigrants with ovarian cancer. Cancer Nurs 2008; 31:126-33. [PMID: 18490889 DOI: 10.1097/01.ncc.0000305697.20497.4f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The dual adjustment to being a cancer patient and an immigrant involves major changes in life and might be a severe experience. This study set out to describe the experience of women who have come to Israel from the former Soviet Union and are coping with ovarian cancer. It focused on illness narratives as presented by 8 patients with cancer at stage III. Our findings indicated that the dual process might have different implications according to the meaning attributed by the patient to the illness situation. Viewing the illness as one more burden among other difficulties, such as language barrier, was a prism through which patients experienced their vulnerability in coping with the illness. Alongside a helplessness pattern, we found indications of interviewees' perceiving advantages in their status as immigrant cancer patients, by dealing with that problem alongside other difficulties. They showed a "fighting spirit" in coping with the illness. Immigration can have a moderating effect on patients' experiences, and the 2 stressors do not necessarily accumulate. Our findings indicate that patients' meaning to the illness experience was a "litmus test," which indicated the way patients would describe their coping stages. This may have potential as a clinical marker of psychological vulnerability.
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- Ilana Mizrahi
- Unit for Research on the Psycho-Social Aspects of Health, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
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Roy SC. 'Taking charge of your health': discourses of responsibility in English-Canadian women's magazines. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2008; 30:463-477. [PMID: 18194356 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01066.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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This article presents an examination of the ways in which responsibility for health is constructed in popular English-Canadian women's magazines. Women's magazines are a unique media form, acting as guidebooks for women on matters relating to feminine gender roles and are important to examine as part of the corpus of societal discourses which frame our understandings of what it means to be healthy and how good health is achieved. Using discourse analysis several techniques were found which reinforce women's individual responsibility to create and maintain good health for themselves and their families. The magazines instruct women/readers directly about their health-related responsibilities and outline the negative consequences of inaction or incorrect action. The magazines also use the traditional discursive technique of women's personal accounts as both cautionary tales and inspirational stories to encourage readers to actively pursue healthy behaviours. Reflecting and reinforcing the discourse of healthism, women's magazines consistently present health as an important individual responsibility and a moral imperative which creates an entrepreneurial subject position for women. The article concludes by discussing the implications for women's magazine audiences within the ongoing feminist debate about this cultural industry.
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- Stephannie C Roy
- Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
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O'Callaghan C. Lullament: Lullaby and Lament Therapeutic Qualities Actualized Through Music Therapy. Am J Hosp Palliat Care 2008; 25:93-9. [DOI: 10.1177/1049909107310139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Lullabies and laments promote new awareness, enculturation, adaptation, and grief expression. These concepts' relevance to palliative care, however, has not been examined. In this study, a music therapist used a grounded theory—informed design to reflexively analyze lullaby and lament qualities, evident in more than 20 years of personal palliative care practice. Thus, the construct “lullament” emerged, which signified helpful moments when patients' and families' personal and sociohistorical relationship with lullabies and laments were actualized. Specific music could be both a lullaby and a lament. A music therapist can enable the lullament through providing opportunities for music-contextualized “restorative resounding,” expressed psychobiologically, verbally, musically, and metaphorically.
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- Clare O'Callaghan
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent's Health, Victoria, Australia,
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Planning for end of life care within lay-led chronic illness self-management training: the significance of 'death awareness' and biographical context in participant accounts. Soc Sci Med 2007; 66:982-93. [PMID: 18158212 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2007] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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UK health policy dictates that Advance Care Planning (ACP), including the use of living wills, promotes choice and quality regarding end of life care for those with chronic and life-threatening conditions and it has been incorporated in self-management training. This paper reports a qualitative evaluation based on in-depth interviews with 31 respondents who had completed a UK-based lay-led self-management course (The Expert Patients Programme), and 12 respondents who had completed the same course adapted for people who are HIV positive. We draw upon previous social research on 'death awareness' and the biographical context of illness experience and management in examining the impact of incorporating this subject within a self-management intervention. The analysis demonstrates that many participants were unprepared to face issues raised in the session with material represented as disrupting some aspects of illness adaptation and existing views about death and dying. Positioning educational material on death and dying alongside that on 'positive' self-management of illness highlights the complexities and sensitivities of planning for end of life care with implications for future educational interventions of this type.
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Fine M, Sirin SR. Theorizing Hyphenated Selves: Researching Youth Development in and across Contentious Political Contexts. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00032.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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McIlfatrick S, Sullivan K, McKenna H, Parahoo K. Patients? experiences of having chemotherapy in a day hospital setting. J Adv Nurs 2007; 59:264-73. [PMID: 17590208 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04324.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIM This paper is a report of a study to explore patients' experiences of having chemotherapy in a day hospital. BACKGROUND The nature of cancer care has changed dramatically in recent years with most patients receiving chemotherapy in a day hospital. Despite recognition of the need to explore patients' experience of cancer treatment, little research has been undertaken in this specific area. METHOD A qualitative approach was adopted with a convenience sample of 30 patients diagnosed with cancer and receiving chemotherapy in a day hospital. Data were collected from January 2002 to March 2003 using unstructured tape-recorded interviews and analysed using a narrative framework. FINDINGS Participants viewed their experiences of chemotherapy treatment from the initial perspective of having to face their need to have chemotherapy. Their experiences in the day hospital had both positive and negative dimensions. Positive aspects related to maintaining a sense of normality and absence of the sick role, whilst negative aspects were related to the dehumanizing, factory-like system in the day hospital. Organizational issues also influenced experiences, including the sense of comradeship with other patients. Participants indicated the need to remain positive about the future and to learn to 'work around' the treatment. CONCLUSION More effective methods are needed to develop patients' confidence and motivation to realize their self-care potential, together with increased awareness of organizational influences on patient experiences. Nurses need to focus on the 'here and now' concerns of patients as opposed to a biomedical perspective relating to treatment regimes, survival and prognosis.
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- Sonja McIlfatrick
- Institute of Nursing Research and School of Nursing, University of Ulster, Newtonabbey, CoAntrim, UK.
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Sutton R, Treloar C. Chronic illness experiences, clinical markers and living with hepatitis C. J Health Psychol 2007; 12:330-40. [PMID: 17284496 DOI: 10.1177/1359105307074278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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This study explores the experiences of people with hepatitis C within two models of chronic illness--illness trajectory and shifting perspectives--and examines the effects of clinical markers of disease in relation to perceived health. The findings show some support for both models and suggest how they can be seen as complementary and inter-related. The social consequences of living with hepatitis C, such as potential social limitations and isolation, were more significant and had greater impact than clinical markers of disease progress and should be emphasized in understandings of transformation experiences in chronic illness.
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O’Callaghan C, McDermott F. Discourse analysis reframes oncologic music therapy research findings. ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2007.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Balneaves LG, Bottorff JL, Grewal SK, Naidu P, Johnson JL, Howard AF. Family support of immigrant Punjabi women with breast cancer. FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH 2007; 30:16-28. [PMID: 17149029 DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200701000-00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Women with breast cancer have been found to rely heavily on family members for providing support during their illness experiences. There has been limited research on ethnocultural families' experiences of illness and how these families respond to a diagnosis of breast cancer. This study examined the experiences and responses of family members of immigrant Punjabi women diagnosed with breast cancer. Through interviews with 19 Punjabi women diagnosed with breast cancer and 18 family members, key practical and emotional support strategies were described. Recommendations for culturally appropriate, family-centered models of care are provided that acknowledge breast cancer as a family event.
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- Lynda G Balneaves
- School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Öster I, Magnusson E, Thyme KE, Lindh J, Åström S. Art therapy for women with breast cancer: The therapeutic consequences of boundary strengthening. ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2007.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Reynolds F, Lim KH. Contribution of visual art-making to the subjective well-being of women living with cancer: A qualitative study. ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2006.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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McGrath C, Jordens CFC, Montgomery K, Kerridge IH. ‘Right’ way to ‘do’ illness? Thinking critically about positive thinking. Intern Med J 2006; 36:665-9. [PMID: 16958645 DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Exhortations to 'be positive' accompany many situations in life, either as a general injunction or in difficult situations where people are facing pressure or adversity. It is particularly evident in health care, where positive thinking has become an aspect of the way people are expected to 'do' illness in developed society. Positive thinking is framed both as a moral injunction and as a central belief system. It is thought to help patients cope emotionally with illness and to provide a biological benefit. Yet, the meanings, expectations and outcomes of positive thinking are infrequently questioned and the risks of positive thinking are rarely examined. We outline some of the latter and suggest that health professionals should exercise caution in both 'prescribing' positive thinking and in responding to patients and carers whose belief systems and feelings of obligation rest on it.
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- C McGrath
- Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
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McGrath C, Montgomery K, White K, Kerridge IH. A narrative account of the impact of positive thinking on discussions about death and dying. Support Care Cancer 2006; 14:1246-51. [PMID: 16718453 DOI: 10.1007/s00520-006-0083-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2005] [Accepted: 04/12/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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GOALS OF WORK The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of autologous stem cell transplant recipients (ASCT) and those who care for them. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a qualitative prospective, longitudinal study. Ten patients who were about to have ASCT and nine carers were recruited to the study. Interviews were to be conducted at regular intervals six times over 2 years. The narratives of two widowed carers were analysed using Grounded Theory and read for themes on positive thinking and death. MAIN RESULTS Positive thinking has a range of meanings, and its use can have a range of consequences. It can either be a useful coping strategy or can interfere with important conversations and planning about the end of life, and subsequently add to the distress of a grieving partner. CONCLUSIONS It is important for patients, their partners and their health professionals to be able to discuss potential adverse consequences of illness, including death, without being hindered by the obligation to be positive or optimistic.
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- Catherine McGrath
- Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Blackburn Building D06, 2006 Sydney, Australia.
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