ObjectiveIn a study conducted in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, we examined the economic impact on families caring for a child with cancer. MethodsWe undertook semi-structured interviews with 28 French and English families with a child diagnosed with cancer in the last 10 years.

Parents used a range of coping strategies of which emotion-focused coping was the most prominent. We have enhanced the FAAR model by including additional coping behaviors as well as a description of how some coping behaviors add to the daily stressors for parents dealing with a child's illness. Professional health care providers need to understand the variability of the coping behaviors in order to appropriately assist parents to avoid coping breakdowns.

This study examined the work environment of rural family physicians in New Brunswick, a province in eastern Canada. The purpose of the research was to explore the job satisfaction of rural family physicians based on gender, age, years in practice, and language and location of practice. Methods:We used a qualitative, collective case study approach (24 cases of two individuals each: 48 interviews). Cases were selected based on gender, location (urban/rural), language (French/English) and number of years since medical school graduation (<10 years, 10-20 years, >20 years). The data reported is based on 21 interviews with rural physicians. Participants were recruited using the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick website information. The research team traveled to physicians' offices throughout the province of New Brunswick to conduct interviews in the language of preference of the physician (French or English). Male researchers interviewed male participants and female researchers interviewed female participants. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed for themes related to the benefits and challenges of rural practice. Consensus on themes was reached among the entire research team.Results: Many rural practitioners face a host of challenges ranging from professional isolation, complex patient profiles and maintaining professional boundaries. In this study, the most important challenge rural family physicians faced was the non-clinical

La recherche menée par les auteures en 2008 avait pour objet d’accroître les connaissances sur le vécu personnel, conjugal et familial des jeunes femmes francophones qui ont été atteintes du cancer du sein au Nouveau-Brunswick et qui y ont survécu. Pour ce faire, quinze femmes francophones de la province ont accepté de participer à une entrevue semi-dirigée. L’importance de développer des stratégies d’adaptation qui englobent certaines dimensions du soutien social pour améliorer leur qualité de vie s’en est dégagée. Par ailleurs, les résultats révèlent que l’impact de la maladie et des traitements sur leur image et leur estime de soi est étroitement lié à leur identité de femme, de mère et de conjointe.The purpose of this study is to examine personal, marital and familial issues of young francophone women diagnosed with breast cancer in New Brunswick. Qualitative interviews were conducted with fifteen young francophone women of the province. The importance of having adjustment strategies like social support for a better quality of life has emerged. The results also show that the impact of the illness and the treatments are linked to their women, mother and wife identities