Clinical commentary: Promoting meaning in the lives of cancer survivors

OʼCONNOR, Anne P.; Wicker, Cheryl A.

doi:10.1016/s0749-2081(95)80045-x

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“…Cancer patients often turn to health care professionals to help them make sense of the overwhelming array of information that confronts them. With the exception of one randomized controlled trial [47], early recommendations for the use of meaning-oriented interventions to address the existential questions and issues associated with cancer were more clinically and intuitively based, rather than theoretically or empirically based [20,35,52]. Meaningoriented strategies have evolved in the past decade and are commonly embedded in multi-modal supportive care interventions for cancer patients [10-12, 15, 29, 39, 40] or as the sole focus of newer psychological interventions [28,13].…”

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The existential plight of cancer: meaning making as a concrete approach to the intangible search for meaning

Lee

2008

Support Care Cancer

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The existential plight of cancer: meaning making as a concrete approach to the intangible search for meaning

Lee

2008

Support Care Cancer

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“…There are some interventions on spiritual well-being such as listening to patients' personal stories (O'Connor & Wicker, 1995), meaning-centered group psychotherapy (Breitbart, 2002), meaning-making interventions (Lee et al, 2006), and the short-term life review (Ando et al, 2008). However, there are few interventions tailored to kinds of attributed meanings to the illness.…”

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A pilot study of transformation, attributed meanings to the illness, and spiritual well-being for terminally ill cancer patients

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“…Various studies have shown that faith in God leads to better adaptation to illness and decreases frustration (30,31). In various studies, the remembrance of God has been raised as a way to reduce fear and anxiety (17).…”

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Parents’ Experience of Caring Children with Cancer: A Qualitative Study with Phenomenological Approach

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Background: Diagnostician of cancer in children can influence their parents' life due to the fact that the disease may threaten the patient's life. It can also put a great burden of care on their parents. Objectives: In this study, we tried to clear the feelings of parents who experience the phenomenon of caring a child with cancer. Methods: The present study has been conducted as a qualitative research with phenomenological approach. Participants were selected with purposeful sampling among 13 parents with an average age of 33.2 and we continued sampling until data saturation. Information was collected by in-depth interviews. The process of interviews was valid and acceptable. Finally, data were categorized as content frameworks (themes) and analyzed with the Colizzi method. Results: The extracted content is consisted of eight main subheadings that include the parents anxiety of the death of their children, parents inability to respond to the questions of their children, parents inability to have an appropriate behavior while confronting the children angry, parents suffering of treatment side effects in their children, the pressure of economic, social, and psychological burden on family, lack of time, experienced the impact of spiritual support, and influence on the relationship between parents and 18 subthemes. Conclusions: Taking care of a child with cancer may have an influence on the parents' life in different aspects and on their quality of life. Regarding the severity of this experiment on the life of parents and due to the sensitivity of this issue, it seems necessary that the results of this study be considered by the country's health policy makers.

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Clinical commentary: Promoting meaning in the lives of cancer survivors

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

The existential plight of cancer: meaning making as a concrete approach to the intangible search for meaning

The existential plight of cancer: meaning making as a concrete approach to the intangible search for meaning

A pilot study of transformation, attributed meanings to the illness, and spiritual well-being for terminally ill cancer patients

Parents’ Experience of Caring Children with Cancer: A Qualitative Study with Phenomenological Approach

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