Coping preferences of head and neck cancer patients - Indian context

Vidhubala, E; Latha,; Ravikannan, R; Mani, C S; Karthikesh, M

doi:10.4103/0019-509x.25768

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“…Qualitative studies of coping responses to HIV-infection in India have reported self-isolation, performing religious acts, praying, and venting to other PLHAs (24-26), consistent with both the religion and social support factors that emerged in our EFA. Religion has been consistently identified as a primary coping strategy for cancer patients in India (65, 66), and, like the grouping of instrumental and emotional support into our social support factor, Indian head and neck cancer patients jointly employed problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies (67). Both types of social support were leveraged by women with moderate to severe depression and anxiety, who reported that both social and financial support from family, friends and colleagues mitigated their mental distress (68).…”

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Cultural Adaptation of the Brief COPE for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern India

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Physical and psychological stressors of HIV infection demand adequate coping responses from persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and coping strategies may vary by cultural context. The Brief COPE is a well validated scale that has been used extensively to assess coping with cancer, depression, and HIV infection in other settings, but never in India. In this study we translated and validated the 28 item Brief COPE among 299 PLHA in South India, assessing reliability, validity, and cultural appropriateness. Although the original scale demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (alpha=0.70) and good convergent validity with depression, the test-retest reliability was marginal (test-retest=0.6) and the original factor structure demonstrated poor fit in a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) yielded a 16 item scale with 5 factors (active planning, social support, avoidant emotions, substance use, religion). A second CFA demonstrated good model fit and acceptable reliability (alpha=0.61) of the adapted scale.

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Cultural Adaptation of the Brief COPE for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern India

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“…Some tendencies to cope according to disease profile (acute/chronic, curative/palliative) can be identified. Cancer patients undergoing surgery and radiation therapy (good expectation of chance of cure) present higher POC scores than new cases (more uncertain) and terminal patients (less possibility of cure) who have high EOC scores 33 …”

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“…Cancer patients undergoing surgery and radiation therapy (good expectation of chance of cure) present higher POC scores than new cases (more uncertain) and terminal patients (less possibility of cure) who have high EOC scores. 33 HD is a palliative care associated with well-known stress factors. 22,[34][35][36] Survival is stationary and QOL has been converted to the main outcome.…”

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Correlation between coping style and quality of life among hemodialysis patients from a low‐income area in Brazil

Santos

2010

Hemodialysis International

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Quality of life (QOL) is an important outcome among end-stage renal disease patients and can be associated with modifiable behaviors. We analyzed the correlation between coping style and QOL among hemodialysis patients. We studied 166 end-stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis. They were older than 18 years, under hemodialysis for at least 3 months, and had never received a transplant. Quality of life was assessed by SF-36 and coping style was scored by the Jalowiec Coping Scale. Emotion-oriented coping and problem-oriented coping scores were compared according to sex, comorbidity, and socioeconomic status by the Mann-Whitney test. Correlations between QOL and 2 coping styles (emotion-oriented coping and problem-oriented coping) were adjusted for age, time on dialysis, hemoglobin, creatinine, albumin, calcium-phosphorus product, and Kt/V by backward stepwise linear regression. There was no difference between coping scores according to sex, comorbidity, and socioeconomic status. Emotion-oriented coping was independently and negatively associated with 4 QOL dimensions: physical functioning, role-physical, role-emotional, and mental health. Our results indicate that patients with high emotion-oriented coping scores should be seen at risk for poor QOL. Patient education in coping skills may be used to change the risk of poor QOL.

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“…Despite the wealth of studies, mainly around breast, lung, liver, stomach and colorectal cancer, which illustrate a variety of strategies on coping, the smaller number of studies for head and neck cancer suggest that patients use particular coping strategies during their cancer journey. For example, emotion or problem-focused coping (Vidhubala, Ravikannan, Mani, Karthikesh, & Latha 2006), with some studies arguing that problem focused coping is the most frequently used strategy by H&N cancer patients (Elani, Edgar, & Allison, 2009;Elani & Allison, 2011). In contrast, Chaturvedi, Shenoy, Prasad, Senthilnathan, & Premlatha (1996) claim that helplessness and fatalism are the commonest coping mechanisms used by H&N cancer patients whilst Sherman, Simonton, Adams, Vural, & Hanna (2000) suggest that denial, focusing on the illness, emotional ventilation, and behavioural disengagement such as giving up or withdrawing were most characteristic of these patients.…”

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Analysing people with head and neck cancers’ use of online support groups

Algtewi

Owens²,

Baker

2015

Cyberpsychology

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Online support groups have become a familiar source of social support for people with a variety of health issues. To date, no research has investigated the use of such groups by people with head and neck cancer (H&N). The aim of this study was to assess the types of social support, both sought and offered, within online support groups (OSGs) for head and neck cancer. Data was collected from 18 OSGs and two coding schemes; the Social Support Behaviour Code and the scheme of Coursaris & Liu (2009), were used to analyse the content of support-seeking and support-offering messages. The results suggested that the most frequently offered types of social support by group members were informational (43.4%) and emotional (32.4%), followed by esteem (15.6%) and network support (6.1%), whereas little tangible assistance was offered (2.4%). The content of support-seeking messages included group members sharing personal experience (31.5%), with the most frequent sought support being informational support (25.5%). The OSGs can be advantageous to people with H&N cancer, especially for those with appearance or speech problems to mitigate their embarrassment and facilitate interaction with others. The present findings suggest that such OSGs can be promising sources of H&N cancer-related informational and emotional support for the recipients, whether they are patients, family members or carers.

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Coping preferences of head and neck cancer patients - Indian context

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Cancer is a major health-related stress and demands adequate coping. Patients with head and

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Cultural Adaptation of the Brief COPE for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern India

Cultural Adaptation of the Brief COPE for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern India

Correlation between coping style and quality of life among hemodialysis patients from a low‐income area in Brazil

Analysing people with head and neck cancers’ use of online support groups

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