"A Mission and Purpose to Make Some Sense out of Everything That Was Happening to Me": A Qualitative Assessment of Mentorship in a Peer-to-Peer Gynecologic Cancer Program.

Autor: Moran HK; University of Kansas School of Medicine, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA., Spoozak L; University of Kansas Cancer Center, 400 Cambridge St, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.; Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.; Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA., Brooks JV; University of Kansas Cancer Center, 400 Cambridge St, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA. jbrooks6@kumc.edu.; Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA. jbrooks6@kumc.edu.; Department of Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA. jbrooks6@kumc.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education [J Cancer Educ] 2024 Dec; Vol. 39 (6), pp. 618-624. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 01.
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-024-02443-8
Abstrakt: This study aimed to elucidate the relationship between mentorship, survivorship, and identity construction in people who have had gynecologic cancer and participated as mentors in a peer mentorship program. A qualitative descriptive study was designed, and hour-long semi-structured interviews with peer mentors were conducted. Interviews investigated how serving as a peer mentor influenced understanding of mentors' own cancer experiences. Thematic analysis was then conducted. All authors open-coded a subset of interviews to develop a codebook, which was then used to code the remaining transcripts. This qualitative inductive analysis of over 7 h of data was managed with NVivo 12. Seven peer mentor participants (N = 7) were interviewed. Four main themes emerged: serving in the social role of mentor gave participants (i) a sense of daily direction in their lives, (ii) an opportunity to give back to others in the cancer community, (iii) an explanatory reason for their cancer journey, and (iv) the ability to reify their own status as survivor. Providing support through a peer mentorship program helped our participants make meaning in their own cancer experience.
Competing Interests: Declarations Ethics Approval Our study was approved by the University of Kansas Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board (approval no. #00145558.) Informed Consent All patients provided verbal informed consent prior to participating in the study. Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests.
(© 2024. The Author(s) under exclusive licence to American Association for Cancer Education.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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