Patient and Partner Strategies for Talking about Lifestyle Change Following a Cardiac Event

Goldsmith, Daena J.; Bute, Jennifer J.; Lindholm, Kristin A.

doi:10.1080/00909882.2011.636373

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“…Because of the challenging conditions under which couples are forced to cope, dilemmas may arise when couples attempt to communicate and support one another. Previous research has explored the communicative dilemmas couples face in other illness contexts (Goldsmith, Bute, & Lindholm, 2012;Goldsmith, Lindholm, & Bute, 2006), and the current findings have furthered our understanding of couple communication in the face of an understudied illness stressor: cancer survivorship. Specifically, the current study has important implications for how, why, and when couples communicate and manage social support throughout a cancer experience and provides important insight for how counselors and practitioners can help couples manage communicative challenges.…”

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confidence: 79%

Communication Dilemmas in the Context of Cancer: Survivors’ and Partners’ Strategies for Communicating Throughout Survivorship

Miller

2014

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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More people are now living longer beyond cancer treatment and are facing the complexities associated with survivorship. Communicating amid a cancer experience, for example, can be difficult for couples, and survivors must face these challenges for extended periods of time. The current study employed a communication perspective to explore couples' conversations throughout cancer survivorship. In-depth interviews with 35 cancer survivors and 25 partners yielded insight into the specific communicative challenges couples face after completing cancer treatment. The data highlight cancer's lingering uncertainties and are discussed in terms of the dyadic challenges inherent in couples' communicative efforts.

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confidence: 79%

Communication Dilemmas in the Context of Cancer: Survivors’ and Partners’ Strategies for Communicating Throughout Survivorship

Miller

2014

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…The interview script was constructed after a thorough review of the relevant psychological, medical, health behavior, health communication, and family studies literature. Questions were worded (where relevant) to be consistent with previous qualitative measures of parent-adolescent HIV risk communication (DiIorio et al, 2003) and with previous scholarship assessing the subjective effectiveness of particular communication strategies (Goldsmith, Bute, Lindholm, 2011; Kosenko, 2010). For example, parents were asked if they thought some ways of talking about HIV prevention worked “better” than others, to provide examples of ways that had worked well and not as well within their family, and to provide other parents with advice on how to broach HIV-related topics.…”

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A Five-Step Process for Interactive Parent–Adolescent Communication About HIV Prevention: Advice From Parents Living With HIV/AIDS

Edwards

Reis

2014

Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services

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AIM This study investigated how parents living with HIV communicated about HIV prevention with their 10–18 year old children. METHODS Interviews with 76 mothers and fathers were analyzed for (1) their experiences discussing HIV prevention with adolescents, and (2) advice on how to best broach HIV-related topics. RESULTS Interactive conversations, where both parents and adolescents participated, were regarded as effective. Parents emphasized that adolescents should have a “voice” (be able to voice their concerns) and a “choice” (have a variety of effective prevention strategies to choose from) during HIV-related talks. DISCUSSION A five step process for interactive communication emerged as a result of these discussions. IMPLICATIONS Health care professionals can facilitate adolescent sexual health by encouraging parents to actively involve their children in discussions about HIV prevention. CONCLUSION Future HIV prevention programs could benefit by providing parents with appropriate tools to foster interactive discussions about sexual health with adolescents.

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“…Future studies could explore how these cognitive and relationship-building efforts fit within the normative perspective-for example, how parents' ongoing relational maintenance behaviors might interact with the meanings of talk that are relevant in particular families. Goldsmith et al (2012) provide some first steps in this direction.…”

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“…In their use of the normative perspective, Goldsmith, Bute, & Lindholm (2012) emphasize that "dynamic relationships" exist among communication, how it is interpreted, and the home routines and social resources available in one's network (p.79). Thus, a strategy employed by one individual with certain resources might not be effective for the same individual under a different set of social circumstances.…”

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Communicating in Complex Situations: A Normative Approach to HIV-Related Talk Among Parents Who Are HIV+

Edwards

Donovan-Kicken

Reis

2013

Health Communication

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Parents with HIV/AIDS are confronted with unique challenges when discussing HIV-related information with their children. Strategies for navigating these challenges effectively have not been systematically examined. In this study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 76 parents with HIV/AIDS who had children ages 10-18. Guided by O'Keefe and Delia's definition of a complex communication situation and Goldsmith's normative approach to interpersonal communication, we examined parents' goals for discussing HIV-related information, factors that made conversations challenging, and instances where these conversational purposes conflicted with one another. Our data reveal the following parent-adolescent communication predicaments: relaying safety information about HIV while minimizing child anxiety, modeling open family communication without damaging one's parental identity, and balancing parent-child relational needs amidst living with an unpredictable health condition. Parents also described a variety of strategies for mitigating challenges when discussing HIV-related topics. Strategies parents perceived as effective included: reframing HIV as a chronic, manageable illness; keeping talk educational; and embedding HIV-related topics within more general conversations. The theoretical and practical applications of these findings are discussed with regards to their relevance to health communication scholars and HIV care professionals.

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Patient and Partner Strategies for Talking about Lifestyle Change Following a Cardiac Event

Cited by 30 publications

References 32 publications

Communication Dilemmas in the Context of Cancer: Survivors’ and Partners’ Strategies for Communicating Throughout Survivorship

Communication Dilemmas in the Context of Cancer: Survivors’ and Partners’ Strategies for Communicating Throughout Survivorship

A Five-Step Process for Interactive Parent–Adolescent Communication About HIV Prevention: Advice From Parents Living With HIV/AIDS

Communicating in Complex Situations: A Normative Approach to HIV-Related Talk Among Parents Who Are HIV+

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