Telephone‐delivered health education and interpersonal counseling improve quality of life for Latinas with breast cancer and their supportive partners

Abstract

The results of this study show that relatively brief, culturally appropriate, and highly accessible telephone-delivered interventions that provide emotional and information support can bring about substantial improvements in QOL for both Latinas with breast cancer and their SPs.

Role of the family, friends and significant others in providing social support and enhancing quality of life in cancer patients

“…According to several studies, women dealing with cancer can benefit from supportive relationships [1], and there was found evidence of moderating effect of social support on the harmful effect of stressful events, including a life-threatening disease. Social support has been identified as being protective for health and in particular for reducing cancer-related distress [2]. When considering the relationship between social support and psychological outcomes, two general models could be applied: the main and the buffering effect model.…”

Telemedicine Use Among Caregivers of Cancer Patients: Systematic Review (Preprint)

“…relationship with partner, perception of patient's health condition). In the former, the most examined constructs are Quality of Life [50,52,54,56,59,62,[64][65][66][67], and Distress [50,52,53,59,61,62,65,[67][68][69]. To assess Quality of Life different tools were used including the Functional Assessment of Cancer Treatment (FACT-G) (n = 4), the Short Form (SF) 36-item and 12-item version (n = 2), the CG QOL Scale-Cancer (CQOL-C) (n = 2), the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Core Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) (n = 1), the Medical Outcomes Study 12-item short form (MOS SF-12) (n = 1), the UCLA Prostate Cancer Index (n=1).…”

“…In twelve papers an intervention was developed an intervention for a unique type of cancer patients [49,[51][52][53][54]58,60,61,65,66,68,70], while the others implemented telemedicine tools for a multifaceted sample including patients with different cancer diagnoses [48,50,[55][56][57]59,[62][63][64]67,71].…”

“…Eight of them were conducted by prepared nurses [48,52,54,56,59,61,62,71]; four were carried out by social workers [60,65,68,70]; three were operated at a distance by carers distance using web-based platforms [51,55,58]. In three randomized trials the intervention was delivered by clinical psychologists [53,62,69], while in another trial a genetic counsellor conducted the telehealth risk communication to motivate colonoscopy [49].…”

“…Dionne-Odom [56,57] published two articles on advanced cancer patients and their caregivers under the ENABLE III Project; three studies [51,55,58] were conducted within the ambit of the CHESS program. Five studies [52,54,59,67,71] were under the FOCUS Program, while Badger et al conducted three RCT studies on breast [60,68] and prostate [65] cancer patients and their partners to examine the effectiveness of two different telephone interventions.…”