Family Development in the Face of Cancer

Weihs, Karen L.; Politi, Mary C.

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“…However, their anxiety words were marginally related to better adjustment at all family levels and significantly related to better overall adjustment. Although these results seem to conflict, the anxiety findings may be representative of the benefits of negative emotional expression during coping , or that children in well‐adjusted families feel free to express their anxiety , whereas expression of anger specifically can repel people, which may reflect a tendency toward more hostile and conflictual interactions in the family .…”

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“…This can, for example, occur as the family moves from a ‘living‐centered’ to a ‘cancer‐centered’ way of life, leaving personal and financial resources dedicated to cancer‐related goals, rather than other family goals. Breast cancer patients who are mothers sometimes struggle with the necessary switch in focus from caring for others to caring for themselves, which likely affects their family members' psychological adjustment in addition to their own .…”

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Linguistic indicators of patient, couple, and family adjustment following breast cancer

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Introduction This study examined how language reflective of emotional and social processes during a cancer-related discussion relates to patient, couple, and family adjustment after breast cancer. It investigated whether emotional expression or relational focus, manifested in language use, indicates healthy family coping following breast cancer. Methods Family members each completed measures of adjustment (Family Environment Scale, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, and patient Profile of Mood States), and engaged in a 15-minute family discussion about how they have coped with breast cancer. Transcripts from the discussion were submitted to a text-analysis software program to obtain frequency of positive and negative emotion words, and personal pronouns spoken by each family member. The relationship between self-reports of adjustment and frequency of language use during the family discussion was analyzed with regression models. Results Partners’ positive emotion words were indicative of better family adjustment, patients’ negative emotion words indicated greater family conflict, and sons’ and daughters’ anger words indicated poorer adjustment, whereas their anxiety words indicated better family adjustment. Partner we-talk was related to better dyadic adjustment, and couples’ “you” was somewhat related to worse adjustment at all levels. Conclusions/Implications Important information about how a family copes with breast cancer can be obtained by attending to families’ emotional and relational language. This study suggests that clinicians and members of families’ support networks can gauge how well a family has adapted after the breast cancer experience by attending to the type of words that each family member uses to describe how they coped with breast cancer.

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Linguistic indicators of patient, couple, and family adjustment following breast cancer

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“…Family relations and social support (environmental characteristics) also impact cancer patients' QoL, particularly those with skin tumors . According to Weihs and Politi, oncological patients whose family environment was cohesive and low in conflict presented better coping. Additionally, Kershaw, Northouse, Kritpracha, Schafenacker, and Mood reported that a family environment characterized by less conflict predicted better patient's adjustment to an oncological disease.…”

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Quality of life in patients with skin tumors: the mediator role of body image and social support

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“…Sendo a família, regra geral, o ponto de apoio mais próximo e mais significativo do indivíduo, pensamos que a qualidade das relações familiares, ou a percepção sobre elas, será fundamental no processo de adaptação e recuperação. Em situações de grande adversidade, como, por exemplo, no caso de doenças crónicas graves, a coesão familiar, a expressão de afectos, a partilha de sentimentos e um baixo nível de conflitos, são condições essenciais para o processo de adaptação e recuperação do equilíbrio individual e familiar (Pereira & Lopes, 2005;Weihs & Politi, 2005). É, ainda, importante considerar que a doença crónica num membro pode provocar efeitos profundos no desenvolvimento de outro membro, e, ainda, que os diferentes membros não se adaptam de forma uniforme à doença (Rolland, 1989).…”

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Factores de adaptação e recuperação após uma doença hemato-oncológica – um estudo exploratório

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Pretendemos analisar factores que podem favorecer ou dificultar o processo de adaptação em indivíduos com uma doença do foro hemato-oncológico. A recolha de dados, com uma amostra de 101 sujeitos em remissão de doença hemato-oncológica, incluiu um questionário sócio-biográfico, o Questionário de Orientação para Viver (QOV- Antonovsky, 1998b), o Questionário de Bem-Estar Psicológico (BEP- Ryff, 1989), o Questionário da Qualidade de Vida (EORTC QLQ-C30 – versão 3- Aaronson et al., 1993) e, o Questionário da Qualidade das Relações Familiares (FES- Moos, 1990). Os resultados obtidos permitem-nos constatar que os sujeitos com nível de escolaridade mais baixo percepcionam-se menos capazes de se adaptarem ao stress; o auto-transplante de medula óssea é um factor de stress adicional e significativo; o diagnóstico de Mieloma múltiplo parece ser indutor de maior stress; os mais jovens, os não casados, os com maior nível de ensino, os empregados e os que não têm filhos têm maior predisposição para uma melhor recuperação; e, o clima relacional familiar constitui um recurso que poderá contribuir para níveis menos elevados de stress e utilização de estratégias mais adaptativas.

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Family Development in the Face of Cancer

Cited by 6 publications

References 63 publications

Linguistic indicators of patient, couple, and family adjustment following breast cancer

Linguistic indicators of patient, couple, and family adjustment following breast cancer

Quality of life in patients with skin tumors: the mediator role of body image and social support

Factores de adaptação e recuperação após uma doença hemato-oncológica – um estudo exploratório

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