Depression and Anxiety in Women With Breast Cancer and Their Partners

Abstract

Findings from this study support that these telephone-delivered psychosocial interventions were effective for decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety to improve psychological quality of life when compared to an AC group.

Evaluation of Quality of Life of Breast Cancer Patient Next-of-kin in Turkey

“…The most significant aspect of QoL mentioned as psychological well-being in many studies (Vanderwerker et al, 2005;Wagner et al, 2006;Badger et al, 2007) although QoL has multidimensional aspects (Ogce et al, 2008;Yanez et al, 2011;Chopra and Kamal, 2012). Studies examining demographic variables and psychosocial characteristics of caregivers related to QoL found that being a woman, younger age, single, lower socioeconomic status, unemployment, low education (Mellon et al, 2006;Gorji et al, 2012) and also lack of personal and social support (Ogce et al, 2008) affect the QoL negatively.…”

Exploring the effectiveness of couples interventions for adults living with a chronic physical illness: A systematic review

“…Six studies compared the couples intervention with a patient-only intervention [35,36,37,38,39,40], eight studies used a patient-only comparison group and a usual care control group [41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48], one study compared two types of couples interventions with a patient-alone comparison group [49], and the remaining twenty compared a couples intervention with usual care or waiting-list controls. Twenty-eight studies reported effect sizes, or provided information to calculate effect sizes.…”

“…Interventions were grouped into two categories according to their main therapeutic approach: 'Cognitive Behavioural Skills Training' (CBST) (n=25), which focuses on illness cognitions, education, goal setting, and coping strategies such as problem solving and symptom management; and 'Relationship Counselling' (RC) (n=10), which addresses relationship difficulties such as sexual intimacy, partner supportiveness, and communication [38,51,45,52,53,54,55,56,57,58]. There was no noticeable effect of mode of delivery (faceto-face, telephone, online) on illness type or outcomes.…”

“…When compared with a patient-only or control group, interventions which contained a module which provided techniques for managing and/ or sharing difficult emotions, effectively reduced depression and emotional distress among couples [67,36,43,60,51,64,61,52,39,56,58], and anxiety [45] and perceived stress [44] in partners.…”

The Breast Service Psychosocial Model of Care Project

“…2,4 Psychosocial interventions such as support from a nurse/breast care nurse, exercise, telephone counselling, computer/online support, psychological and psychiatric care and social supports have all been found to improve the psychosocial status of women diagnosed with breast cancer. [5][6][7] As a result, the clinical practice guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia for the psychosocial care of adults with cancer 3 highlight the need for further research regarding "strategies to improve the detection of psychological difficulties in people with cancer" (p. 136) and "optimal methods for psychosocial referral and practice strategies to improve uptake" (p. 136). Enhanced knowledge about the best way to detect and respond to patients' psychosocial needs is vital in empower-…”