Dyadic effects of coping strategies, time perspectives, and personality on the quality of life of cancer patients and their caregivers

Hamidou, Zeinab; Auquier, Pascal; Leroy, T.; Salas, Sébastien; Chinot, Olivier; Baumstarck, Karine

doi:10.1002/pon.4553

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“…Regarding the year of publication, 36 out of 62 articles were published in 2017 and 28 in 2018. Countries where the respective studies were conducted were the USA/Canada ( n = 23) [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31], Scandinavia ( n = 7) [32,33,34,35,36,37,38], UK ( n = 4) [39,40,41,42], Germany ( n = 4) [43,44,45,46], Southern Europe (Italy, Portugal, Spain; n = 8) [47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54], East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan; n = 4) [55,56,57,58,59,60], Australia/New Zealand ( n = 4) [61,62,63,64], other ( n = 4) [65,66,67,68], and multinational ( n = 2) [69,70].…”

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“…Forty-seven studies reported on relatives of advanced cancer patient’s [9,10,11,13,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,36,37,38,39,42,43,44,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,65,66,67] and 15 studies included relatives of mixed patient samples [12,14,25,33,35,40,41,45,54,62,63,64,68,69,70]. The environment in which the patient received palliative or hospice care were home care in 18 studies [10,14,25,26,27,30,3...…”

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confidence: 99%

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Current Advances in Palliative & Hospice Care: Problems and Needs of Relatives and Family Caregivers During Palliative and Hospice Care—An Overview of Current Literature

Oechsle

2019

Medical Sciences

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Palliative and hospice care aims to improve quality of life of patients’ relatives, but still little is known about their specific problems and needs. We present a comprehensive literature update. Narrative review to present an expert overview of peer-reviewed, English-written original research publications and reviews on psychosocial and existential problems, supportive needs as well as interventions for relatives during the patients’ disease trajectory published between January 2017 and November 2018. A total of 64 publications were included. Relatives report high rates of psychological and existential distress, burden and psychological morbidity during the total disease trajectory of the patient. In addition, relatives report an alarmingly high number of unmet needs with information being the central issue. Relatives’ problems and needs are part of complex systems influenced by various socio-demographic factors and patient–relatives-interactions and dependency between different psychological phenomena. First support interventions for relatives during disease trajectory have proven feasible and secondary data from randomized studies suggest beneficial effects of providing early palliative care also for relatives. Relatives should be addressed to a still larger extent in the daily practice of palliative and hospice care, thus further research to reveal more detailed systematic information is needed to improve relatives’ psychological burden and quality of life.

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confidence: 99%

Current Advances in Palliative & Hospice Care: Problems and Needs of Relatives and Family Caregivers During Palliative and Hospice Care—An Overview of Current Literature

Oechsle

2019

Medical Sciences

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“…While the coping strategies employed depend on the cognitive, behavioral and social resources that the patients and caregivers are able to mobilize, this result suggests that people who know each other very well and who are faced with the same difficult event tend to cope with it similarly. This phenomenon was already described in the context of ARHL [19], but has also been described in other contexts, such as cancer [15, 16] and mental illnesses [17].…”

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“…In particular, the personal ability to cope, defined as the cognitive and behavioral efforts that the individuals implement to solve problems and reduce the stress that may result [11–13], has previously been shown as having a direct impact on the QoL of the individuals. More interesting, the nature of individuals’ coping strategies may have a direct impact on the QoL [14] of their natural caregivers as shown in various contexts, such as cancer [15, 16] or severe mental disease [17]. These different studies showed that positive thinking or problem solving seem to be preferentially associated with better QoL, and the use of strategies based on avoidance or social support appear to be a risk factor for lower QoL [15–18].…”

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Coping with age-related hearing loss: patient-caregiver dyad effects on quality of life

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Martin²,

Saint-Laurent³

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Health Qual Life Outcomes

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Background and aims Patients with age -related hearing loss (ARHL) and their natural caregivers have to confront a disability that produces progressive lifestyle changes. There is an interest in studying the ability of patients and their caregivers to cope with the difficulties that affect quality of life (QoL). In a sample of patient-caregiver dyads in the specific context of ARHL, we examine whether the QoL of patients and caregivers is influenced by the coping processes they use from a specific actor–partner interdependence model (APIM). Methods This cross-sectional study involved dyads with patients having a diagnosis of ARHL. The self-reported data included QoL (WHOQoL-BREF) and coping strategies (BriefCope). The APIM was used to test the dyadic effects of coping strategies on QoL. Results A total of 448 dyads were included; the patients and caregivers were love partners for 59% of the dyads. Coping strategies, such as social support, avoidance, problem solving, and positive thinking, exhibited evidence of actor effects (degree to which the individual’s coping strategies are associated with their own QoL). Effects on the partner (degree to which the individual’s coping strategies are associated with the QoL of the other member of the dyad) were found, i.e., when the patients mobilized their coping strategy based on social support and problem-solving, their caregivers reported higher environmental QoL. Conclusion This study emphasizes that the QoL for patients and their caregivers was directly related to the coping strategies they used. This finding suggests that targeted interventions should be offered to help patients and their relatives to implement more effective coping strategies. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12955-019-1161-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…the use of avoidance strategies), the more impaired are skin‐related QoL, psychological distress and self‐esteem. Consistently, studies assessing the influence of coping on general QoL in patients with physical diseases, for example, cancer, type 2 diabetes and systemic lupus erythematosus, outlined that the endorsement of maladaptive coping strategies (e.g. behavioural and mental disengagement) impact negatively on QoL and psychological well‐being.…”

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Dysfunctional coping is related to impaired skin‐related quality of life and psychological distress in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 with major skin involvement

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Background Low skin-related quality of life (QoL) is usually associated with low levels of self-confidence and self-esteem and with high levels of anxiety and depression symptoms. The way patients cope with a physical disease impacts significantly on their psychosocial adjustment to the disorder and on their emotional functioning. Objectives To explore how coping strategies, skin-related QoL, psychological distress and self-esteem interact in a sample of individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Methods Seventy-two adult patients with NF1 completed the following questionnaires: Coping Orientation to Problem Experiences (COPE), Skindex-29, Padua Skin-Related QoL questionnaire (PSRQ), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-X2 form (STAI-X2), Depression Questionnaire (DQ) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). The k-modes algorithm was used to identify clusters of patients based on four variables: sex, NF1 severity, number and distribution of cutaneous neurofibromas. Individuals in different clusters were compared with regard to their scores; correlations between scores were analysed within each cluster. Results Two main clusters were identified: individuals in Cluster 1 had a larger number and more widespread distribution of neurofibromas compared with Cluster 2. Patients in Cluster 1 scored higher only on several PSRQ and Skindex-29 scales. Among patients in Cluster 1, the COPE 'avoidance strategies' scale was significantly correlated with the PSRQ 'physical distress and impairments' scale, the Skindex-29 'physical symptoms' and 'functioning' scales, the STAI-X2, the DQ and the RSES. Conclusions Patients with major skin involvement have reduced skin-related QoL. Among them, current findings tentatively suggest that the higher the use of dysfunctional coping, the more impaired are QoL, psychological distress and selfesteem.What's already known about this topic?• Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) can affect the quality of life (QoL) in adolescent and adult patients.• Low skin-related QoL is usually associated with low levels of self-confidence and self-esteem and with high levels of anxiety and depression symptoms.• Questionnaires evaluating skin-related QoL, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and coping are available.What does this study add?• Patients with a large number and a widespread distribution of cutaneous neurofibromas have reduced skin-related QoL compared with patients with minor skin involvement.

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Dyadic effects of coping strategies, time perspectives, and personality on the quality of life of cancer patients and their caregivers

Cited by 33 publications

References 38 publications

Current Advances in Palliative & Hospice Care: Problems and Needs of Relatives and Family Caregivers During Palliative and Hospice Care—An Overview of Current Literature

Current Advances in Palliative & Hospice Care: Problems and Needs of Relatives and Family Caregivers During Palliative and Hospice Care—An Overview of Current Literature

Coping with age-related hearing loss: patient-caregiver dyad effects on quality of life

Dysfunctional coping is related to impaired skin‐related quality of life and psychological distress in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 with major skin involvement

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