Cancer Communication and Family Caregiver Quality of Life
| Autor: | Catherine Del Ferraro, Elaine Wittenberg, Marianna Koczywas, Betty Ferrell, Tami Borneman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Coping (psychology)
lcsh:BF1-990 Psychological intervention Development Coaching Article 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Patient experience Genetics cancer Medicine Medical history 030212 general & internal medicine caregiver General Psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics communication oncology family caregiving quality of life Family caregivers business.industry medicine.disease 3. Good health lcsh:Psychology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Skill building Caregiver stress business |
| Zdroj: | Behavioral Sciences; Volume 7; Issue 1; Pages: 12 Behavioral Sciences, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 12 (2017) Behavioral Sciences |
| ISSN: | 2076-328X |
| DOI: | 10.3390/bs7010012 |
| Popis: | Family caregivers have enormous communication responsibilities tied to caregiving, such as sharing the patient's medical history with providers, relaying diagnosis and prognosis to other family members, and making decisions about care with the patient. While caregiver stress and burden has been widely documented in the caregiving literature, little is known about how communication burden, real or perceived communication challenges, impacts caregiver quality of life. In family caregiving, the City of Hope (COH) Quality of Life model proposes that the caregiving experience is reciprocal to the patient experience, impacting physical, social, psychological, and spiritual quality of life. We used data from a pilot study testing a communication coaching call intervention with family caregivers of lung cancer patients to analyze caregiver reported communication burden and quality of life. We found variances in each quality of life domain, suggesting that caregiver interventions should range from self-care skill building for physical care to psycho-educational interventions that support caregiver coping and communication skill building. These findings demonstrate the importance of caregiver assessment and attention to communication burden in quality cancer care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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