Social Support Sources, Types, and Generativity: A Focus Group Study of Cancer Survivors and Their Caregivers

Wong, Alison G.; Ki, Ppudah; Maharaj, Artie; Brown, Edna; Davis, Cindy; Apolinsky, Felice

doi:10.1080/00981389.2013.873515

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“…Increased social work involvement in planning may help address oncologist's concerns about having sufficient time to complete survivorship care plans with each patient (Brennan et al, 2010;Jacobs et al, 2009) and can address survivors' needs to have clear information about their care (Beckjord et al, 2008). Finally, social workers can serve as patient navigators to accurately assess survivors' needs for material and emotional support (Davis et al, 2009(Davis et al, , 2013Wong et al, 2014).…”

Section: Practice Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Cancer survivorship care-planning: Practice, research, and policy implications for social work

Wagner

Pritzker

2016

Social Work in Health Care

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Increasing numbers of cancer survivors are living longer than 5 years from their diagnosis date. This has resulted in a growing population of cancer survivors, expected to reach 19 million by 2024. Survivors frequently experience late effects caused by cancer and its treatment, reducing survivors' quality of life in multiple domains. Survivorship care-plans may aid the many physical, psychosocial, and financial needs that emerge posttreatment. However, the lack of reimbursement mechanisms, the limited amount of effectiveness research, and minimal guidelines for content and delivery are barriers to the widespread provision of survivorship care-plans. Challenges and opportunities for social work practice, research, and policy are identified and discussed.

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Section: Practice Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Cancer survivorship care-planning: Practice, research, and policy implications for social work

Wagner

Pritzker

2016

Social Work in Health Care

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“…Social stressors (ie, negative social interactions) were measured with 4 items adapted from the work of Krause and Borawski-Clark 30 and other publications by Krause; caregivers were asked how often others had 1) made too many demands on them, 2) been critical of them, 3) pried into their affairs, and 4) taken advantage of them. These items were measured on a 4-point Likert scale (from never [1] to always [4]) and were summed (range, [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Higher scores corresponded to more social stress.…”

Section: Social Stressorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Current relationship quality was measured with 3 items assessing the current closeness, communication, and overall relationship with the care recipient. Items were scored on a 4-point Likert scale (from not at all [1] to very well [4]) and were summed (range, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Higher scores corresponded to better relationship quality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Social factors are important contextual elements that may be influenced by the caregiving role . Although social support has been well characterized in informal cancer caregivers (eg, Wong et al, van Ryn et al, and Hung et al), other social factors such as social stress (ie, negative social interactions) and relationship quality have not received the same attention in this population. Family functioning, another important social factor, has been explored among breast cancer survivors and their families and increasingly in other cancer populations .…”

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Social factors in informal cancer caregivers: The interrelationships among social stressors, relationship quality, and family functioning in the CanCORS data set

Litzelman

Kent

Rowland

2015

Cancer

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Background Social and family factors can influence health outcomes and quality of life of informal caregivers. Little is known about the distribution and correlates of such factors in caregivers of cancer patients. This study sought to fill this gap using data from the Cancer Care Outcomes Research & Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS). Methods Lung and colorectal cancer patients nominated an informal caregiver to participate in a caregiving survey. Caregivers reported their sociodemographic and caregiving characteristics, social stress, relationship quality with the patient, and family functioning. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations assessed the distribution of caregivers’ social factors. Multivariable linear regressions assessed the independent correlates of each social factor. Results Most caregivers reported low-to-moderate levels of social stress and good relationship quality and family functioning. In multivariable analyses older age was associated with less social stress and better family functioning, but worse relationship quality, with effect sizes (Cohen’s D) up to 0.40 (p<0.05). Caring for a female patient was associated with less social stress and better relationship quality, but worse family functioning (effect sizes up to 0.16, p<0.05). Few caregiving characteristics were associated with social stress, while several were significant independent correlates of relationship quality. Finally, social factors were important independent correlates of one another. Conclusions The results indicate the importance of personal and caregiving-related characteristics and the broader family context to social factors. Future work is needed to better understand these pathways and assess whether interventions targeting social factors can improve health or quality of life outcomes for informal cancer caregivers.

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“…9, No. 5; into different types as emotional, instrumental, informational and evaluation support (Kef, 1997;Langford, Bowsher, Maloney, & Lillis, 1997;Wong et al, 2014). Families, friends and other special people create the most important social support sources of individuals (You & Lu, 2014;Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet, & Farley, 1988).…”

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Perceived Social Support and Assertiveness as a Predictor of Candidates Psychological Counselors’ Psychological Well-Being

Ateş¹

2016

IES

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In this research, to what extent the variables of perceived social support (family, friends and special people) and assertiveness predicted the psychological well-being levels of candidate psychological counselors. The research group of this study included totally randomly selected 308 candidate psychological counselors including 174 females (56.5%) and 134 males (43.5%) studying at Erzincan University, Faculty of Education, Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department in 2015-2016 academic year. The age average of the research group was 20.84. Psychological Well-Being Scale, Voltan-Acar Assertiveness Scale, Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale, and Personal Information Form were used as the data collection tools in the research. The data obtained in the research were analyzed with stepwise regression analysis method as one of the multiple linear regression analyses methods. According to the research findings, the variables of assertiveness and social support perceived from family, friends and special people significantly predicted psychological well-being.

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Social Support Sources, Types, and Generativity: A Focus Group Study of Cancer Survivors and Their Caregivers

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Cancer survivorship care-planning: Practice, research, and policy implications for social work

Cancer survivorship care-planning: Practice, research, and policy implications for social work

Social factors in informal cancer caregivers: The interrelationships among social stressors, relationship quality, and family functioning in the CanCORS data set

Perceived Social Support and Assertiveness as a Predictor of Candidates Psychological Counselors’ Psychological Well-Being

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