Stress and coping with advanced cancer

Faye, Barbara J. de; Wilson, Keith G.; Chater, Susan; Viola, Raymond; Hall, Pippa

doi:10.1017/s1478951506060317

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“…This finding is also evident in De Faye et al [16] study, with 59.6% of advanced cancer patients citing concerns about the future as their most significant source of existential distress. Positive thinking, reexamination of life, and religious and cultural beliefs are identified to be internal factors that facilitate their search for meaning and contribute to the process of growth [41].…”

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confidence: 55%

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A Brief Meaning-focused Intervention for Advanced Cancer Patients in Acute Oncology Setting

Theresa¹

2013

J Palliative Care Med

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“…Numerous studies [16][17][18] found that 13% to 29% of advanced cancer patients experienced moderate to severe existential distress, whereas approximately 25% experienced minor distress. In Morita et al [17] study, 38% of terminally ill in-patients spontaneously expressed existential distress and 37% expressed meaninglessness in life.…”

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A Brief Meaning-focused Intervention for Advanced Cancer Patients in Acute Oncology Setting

Theresa¹

2013

J Palliative Care Med

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“…Item endorsement analyses of the escape-avoidance sub scale suggest that patients may have used more passive than active avoidance strategies, which demonstrate the importance of the traumatic cause and its related consequences. Others found that problem-focused coping was less frequent for existential issues, whereas emotion-focused strategies were used less frequently for physical stressors [25]. However, in a study of Silva et al found that the coping strategy of escapeavoidance and self-control was the most used coping by patients with psoriasis and both groups present high-stress levels [26], which indicate the difference between the cultures in using ways of coping.…”

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'The Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Coping Strategies among Patients with Cancer in Gaza Strip

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2017

J Nurs Health Stud

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Aim: The study aimed to examine the mental health status of the patients with cancer and the coping strategies that adopted by them in front of stressful situations. Method:The sample consisted of 358 patients with cancer in the oncology clinic at Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip. Participants were interviewed individually by questionnaire include socioeconomic questionnaire, PTSD scale, and Ways of coping Scale. Results:The study showed that 42.5% of patients had PTSD, 47% had re-experiencing of PTSD, 40.5% had hyperarousal, and 40.1% had avoidance symptoms. The group of 40 years and less were significantly higher in reexperiences than 71 years and above among the study sample.The results showed that affiliation at the highest rank (81.6%), followed by reinterpretation (75.5%), self-control coping strategy (75.3%), problem solving (72.3%), wish and avoidance thinking was (69.0%), trouble and escape was (61.8%), accountability coping strategy was (53.0%) among the study sample of patients with cancer. The result showed that there were no significant differences in sex of patients and wish and avoidance thinking, problem solving, reinterpretation, affiliation, accountability, and self-control. However, there were significant differences in trouble and escape in favor of male patients.There was positive significant correlation between wish and avoidance thinking and re-experience of PTSD. In addition, there were positive significant correlation between accountability and PTSD, re-experience of PTSD, avoidance of PTSD, hyper-arousal of PTSD. In addition, there were positive significant correlation between Trouble and escape and PTSD, re-experience of PTSD, avoidance of PTSD, hyper-arousal of PTSD. While; there were negative significant correlation between problem solving and PTSD, re-experience of PTSD, avoidance of PTSD, hyperarousal of PTSD. In addition, there were negative significant correlation between re-interpretation and PTSD, re-experience of PTSD, avoidance of PTSD, hyperarousal of PTSD. In addition, there were negative significant correlation between affiliation and PTSD, avoidance of PTSD, hyperarousal of PTSD. In addition, there were negative significant correlation between selfcontrol and PTSD, avoidance of PTSD, hyper-arousal of PTSD.Clinical implications: Our findings highlight the need for therapeutic and educational programmes-including counseling for those patients with cancer and their families, support groups, and behavioural therapy for patients with P.T.S.D, and other psychiatric disorders. Also, new family therapy programmes must be established aimed at improving communications and interactions between family members, as well as teaching problemsolving skills to assist the family members in confronting the mental health problems associated with cancer.

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“…This belief has been termed self-perceived burden, and it has been defined as "a multidimensional construct arising from care recipients' feelings of dependence and the resulting frustration and worry, which then lead to feelings of guilt at being responsible for the caregiver's hardship" (p. 111). 1 The prevalence of a problematic sense of self-perceived burden is quite high in some medical populations, ranging from 26% to 65% among patients receiving palliative care for cancer, [2][3][4][5][6] 65% to 70% among stroke survivors, 7,8 and over 70% among patients entering treatment for chronic nonmalignant pain. 9 Self-perceived burden has been correlated with measures of pain, disability, and depression in different patient groups.…”

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“…In the palliative care setting, it has been associated with expressions of a desire for death and an interest in receiving physician-assisted suicide. 2,10,11 In chronic pain, it has been associated specifically with selfreports of SI. 9,12,13 The second body of research is grounded in the interpersonal theory of suicide, 14,15 which proposes that serious SI depends on the emergence of two psychological precursor conditions, namely, thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness.…”

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Self-perceived burden, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation in patients with chronic pain

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Kowal

Caird

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Canadian Journal of Pain

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Background: Self-perceived burden and perceived burdensomeness are two apparently related constructs that have arisen independently from research in physical and mental health, respectively. Although both are associated with suicidal ideation in individuals with chronic pain, they have yet to be examined concurrently in the same group of patients. Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the two constructs and their differential prediction of suicidal ideation. Methods: Participants were 260 outpatients of an interdisciplinary chronic pain treatment program. Each participant completed the Self-Perceived Burden Scale (SPBS), the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire Perceived Burdensomeness Scale (INQPBS), the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation, and the thoughts of self-harm item of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Results: The SPBS and the INQPBS were both unifactorial measures with good internal consistency. They correlated significantly with one another (r = 0.50, P < 0.001), as well as with scores on the two measures of suicidal ideation (rs ranging from 0.29 to 0.62, Ps < 0.001). However, the INQPBS correlated more highly with suicidal ideation than did the SPBS. In regression analyses, the INQPBS predicted unique variance in suicidal ideation after adjusting for the SPBS. Conversely, the SPBS did not contribute uniquely when the INQPBS was entered first. Conclusions: Patients with chronic pain who believe that they have become "a burden to others" are at increased risk for suicidal ideation. The conceptual similarities and differences between the constructs of self-perceived burden and perceived burdensomeness are reviewed to explain why perceived burdensomeness is the stronger predictor of this increased risk.

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Stress and coping with advanced cancer

Cited by 58 publications

References 48 publications

A Brief Meaning-focused Intervention for Advanced Cancer Patients in Acute Oncology Setting

A Brief Meaning-focused Intervention for Advanced Cancer Patients in Acute Oncology Setting

'The Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Coping Strategies among Patients with Cancer in Gaza Strip

Self-perceived burden, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation in patients with chronic pain

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