Emotional Approach Coping and the Effects of Online Peer-Led Support Group Participation Among Patients With Breast Cancer: A Longitudinal Study

Batenburg, Anika; Das, Enny

doi:10.2196/jmir.3517

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“…These findings meet with the data of other surveys that a significant number of breast cancer patients has 2 to 3 times elevated anxiety and depression . The prevalence of depression in different investigations varies from 9 till 56%, and no significant effect of time on depression was found …”

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The risk factors for depression in Lithuanian breast cancer patients

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KEYWORDSbreast cancer, depression, delivery of diagnosis, psychocial, risk factors, support 1 | BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and the most frequent cancer among women. 1 This disease is one of the most stressful events in someone's life, what can trigger a depression. 2 In investigations made worldwide tendency was observed, that older, not employed, low educated and single patients are more prone to depression. [3][4][5][6] Lithuania remains a country where depression in cancer patients is under studied. Taking into account that the suicidal rate of the general population of Lithuania is one of the biggest in Europe since 1993, 7 it is very important to investigate the risk factors for depression. Lithuania is a country in which many economic, political, and social changes have occurred during the last two decades. We had a hypothesis that risk factors of depression in Lithuanian breast cancer patients will differ from other European non post-soviet countries because of economic level and social-cultural features. 8 The main aims of this study were to evaluate prevalence and risk for depression in Lithuanian women diagnosed with breast cancer, and to identify the influence of social, demographic, psychological, and clinical factors on the depression. 2 | METHODS 2.1 | Design and data collection The questionnaire survey was performed in the National Cancer Institute between 2012 and 2014. Participants were newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, age 18 to 80 years with T1-3N0-3M0 stage breast cancer. Patients completed questionnaires before beginning cancer treatment and at one-year follow-up. Completed questionnaires included: The Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II) 9 ; Vrana &Lauterbach Traumatic Events Scale-Civilian version (TEQ) 10 ; a questionnaire on patients' satisfaction about the communication of the diagnosis, and necessity of psychological support. | Statistical analysisDescriptive statistics were used to characterize the sample. Categorical variables were expressed as absolute and relative frequencies.Mann-Whitney U was used for between-group comparisons of BDI-II scores and Pearson's chi-square test for categorical variables. Categorical variables were compared using Pearson's chi-square test. The odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for depression and risk variables were estimated using multiple logistic regression.The BDI-II cut-off of ≥13 score was used to dichotomize patients into cases and non-cases. Unvariate logistic regression was conducted to explore the unadjusted association between variables and outcome.Likelihood ratio test was used for models fit. Summary measures of goodness of fit (likelihood ratio chi-square and Hosmer and Lemeshow's goodness-of-fit test) were conducted for assessing fit of the models. Receiver operating characteristics curve was used to assess discrimination power of the model. For assessing changes of prevalence of depression symptoms over time, McNemar's chi-square

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“…This disease is one of the most stressful events in someone's life, what can trigger a depression . In investigations made worldwide tendency was observed, that older, not employed, low educated and single patients are more prone to depression . Lithuania remains a country where depression in cancer patients is under studied.…”

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The risk factors for depression in Lithuanian breast cancer patients

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“…Stanton, Danoff‐Burg, Cameron, and Ellis (1994) developed the construct and a measure of emotional approach coping (EAC), which refers to emotional processing/understanding and emotional expression. Research shows that EAC predicts better health and adjustment (Batenburg & Das, 2014; Ghetti, 2011; Hassija, Luterek, Naragon‐Gainey, Moore, & Simpson, 2012; Hoyt et al., 2013; Stanton, Danoff‐Burg, et al, 2000) across various patient and non‐patient populations (Batenburg & Das, 2014; Cho, Park, & Blank, 2013; Hoyt et al., 2013). Yet EAC has been rarely studied in pain populations.…”

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Emotions matter: The role of emotional approach coping in chronic pain

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European Journal of Pain

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Background Emotional approach coping (EAC) is a potentially adaptive emotion‐focused coping style that involves understanding or processing one's emotions and expressing them appropriately. Although EAC has been studied in various populations, little is known about this construct among people with chronic pain, including potential mediators such as negative affect, which might link EAC to pain‐related variables, and moderators of these relationships. Methods Participants (N = 670; 76% women; 30% older adults—age 60 or over) with chronic pain completed online the Emotional Approach Coping Scale and measures of pain severity, pain interference and negative affect. Analyses correlated EAC to pain severity and interference and tested whether gender and age group (older adults versus young/middle‐age adults) moderated the mediated relationships of EAC with pain‐related variables through negative affect. Results Findings reveal that higher EAC was associated with lower pain intensity through lower negative affect in the young/middle‐age portion of the sample, but not older adults. Also, higher EAC was associated with lower pain interference through lower negative affect among women in the sample, but not men. The associations of EAC to pain intensity and interference are small in magnitude, however, and should be considered preliminary. Conclusion EAC is associated with lower pain intensity in young/middle‐age adults and lower pain interference in women, and lower negative affect mediates these relationships. These results suggest the potential value of assessing and bolstering emotional approach coping processes in some people with chronic pain.

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“…The use of group dynamics-based principles of behavior change have been shown to be highly effective in enhancing social support, e.g., through promoting group cohesion in physical activity [4] and in reducing smoking relapse [5]. Especially for cancer, the latest studies [6] suggest that group therapy improves the well-being of cancer patients because of enhanced discussion and social support. In these counseling meetings, the patient is directed towards the most informative and reliable sources on the Web.…”

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Multidimensional Group Recommendations in the Health Domain

2020

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Providing useful resources to patients is essential in achieving the vision of participatory medicine. However, the problem of identifying pertinent content for a group of patients is even more difficult than identifying information for just one. Nevertheless, studies suggest that the group dynamics-based principles of behavior change have a positive effect on the patients’ welfare. Along these lines, in this paper, we present a multidimensional recommendation model in the health domain using collaborative filtering. We propose a novel semantic similarity function between users, going beyond patient medical problems, considering additional dimensions such as the education level, the health literacy, and the psycho-emotional status of the patients. Exploiting those dimensions, we are interested in providing recommendations that are both high relevant and fair to groups of patients. Consequently, we introduce the notion of fairness and we present a new aggregation method, accumulating preference scores. We experimentally show that our approach can perform better recommendations to small group of patients for useful information documents.

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Emotional Approach Coping and the Effects of Online Peer-Led Support Group Participation Among Patients With Breast Cancer: A Longitudinal Study

Cited by 42 publications

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The risk factors for depression in Lithuanian breast cancer patients

The risk factors for depression in Lithuanian breast cancer patients

Emotions matter: The role of emotional approach coping in chronic pain

Multidimensional Group Recommendations in the Health Domain

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