When peer support may be most beneficial: the relationship between upward comparison and perceived threat

“…By referring to the positive experience of talking to "a person who had felt the same inside", patients showed how they looked upon the peer supporter as reference person, with whom to compare and validate their own experience, similar to the upward comparison described by Legg et al [18].…”

Section: Benefits For the Patientsmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…First, according to the stress and coping perspective, social support promotes coping and protects individuals against unhealthy stress. There is evidence that a peer support intervention may alleviate distress [18], but there are no systematic studies on the stress reduction effect of peer support programs.…”

Section: Introduction and Aimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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To support and to be supported. A qualitative study of peer support centres in cancer care in Norway

Skirbekk

Korsvold

Finset

2018

Patient Education and Counseling

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Objective: To explore what peer supporters, patients and their relatives want and gain from peer support in cancer care. Methods:Focus group interviews with peer supporters, and in-depth interviews with peer supporters, patients and relatives (N=38) and observations of daily activities in a Vardesenter ("Cairn Centre").Results: Peer supporters helped cancer patients and relatives with coping in and outside the hospital in several ways: (1) conveying hope and providing ways to cope in situations where despair would often be prevalent, thus protecting against unhealthy stress; (2) being someone who had had the same experiences of disease and treatment, and thus providing a framework for positive social comparisons; and (3) to be an important supplement to family and health care providers. To be working as a peer supporter was also found to be positive and important for the peer supporters themselves. Conclusion:The peer support program represented a valuable supplement to informal support from family and friends and healthcare providers, and gave the peer supporters a new role as "professionally unprofessional". Practice implications:Organised peer support represents a feasible intervention to promote coping for cancer survivors.

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“…4,18 Proposições advindas da literatura gerontológica apontam para a possibilidade de que haja crenças negativas compartilhadas a respeito da velhice, e, assim, ao se comparar com outros indivíduos considerados idosos, julgam-se em condições melhores de saúde do que os demais. 19,20 A percepção de saúde seguiu a mesma direção dos resultados obtidos em outros estudos em relação aos indicadores de funcionalidade. O nível de dependência nas AIVDs, que indicou piora no estado de saúde autoavaliado, corroborou os dados obtidos em estudos semelhantes.…”

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The association between self-rated health and functional capacity indicators

Belmonte¹,

Pivetta²,

Batistoni³

et al. 2017

Geriatr., Gerontol. Aging

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a RESUMOOBJETIVO: Analisar a autoavaliação de saúde e identificar suas relações com a capacidade funcional e as medidas objetivas de força muscular e mobilidade em amostra idosa residente na comunidade. MÉTODO: Estudo transversal de base populacional com dados provenientes do banco eletrônico do Estudo de Fragilidade em Idosos Brasileiros (Fibra), realizado entre os anos de 2008 e 2009, em que foram recrutados 2.558 idosos da comunidade, residentes na área urbana. A variável dependente foi a autoavaliação de saúde comparada aos pares etários na velhice. As razões de chances, ajustadas pelas variáveis sociodemográficas e de saúde, foram estimadas por meio de regressão logística multinomial. As análises foram conduzidas no programa Stata 14.0. RESULTADOS: A média de idade dos idosos foi de 72,3 anos (DP ± 5,5), e 65,6% eram mulheres. Quando comparados a alguém da mesma idade, 70,2% avaliaram a sua saúde como melhor, 23,4% como igual e 6,4% como pior. Pelo modelo de regressão, verificou-se, no modelo ajustado, diferença estatisticamente significativa em relação à autoavaliação da saúde -sendo pior nos idosos dependentes nas atividades instrumentais (OR = 2,19; IC95% 1,22-3,92) e com menor força de preensão (OR = 0,96; IC95% 0,93-0,99). Avaliar a saúde como melhor apresentou diferença significativa com a velocidade de marcha (OR = 0,88; IC95% 0,81-0,94). CONCLUSÃO: Foram encontradas associações da autoavaliação de saúde e atividades instrumentais de vida diária, velocidade de marcha e força de preensão. Esses resultados reforçam a funcionalidade como um importante indicador de saúde, além de proporcionar a ampliação da abordagem da autoavaliação de saúde incluindo critérios de comparação social. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: saúde do idoso; autoavaliação; atividades cotidianas; idoso; prevalência. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE:To evaluate self-rated health and to identify its relationship with functional capacity, objective measures of muscle strength, and mobility in a sample of community-dwelling elderly adults. METHOD: A cross-sectional, population-based study using data from the "Fragility Study on Brazilian Elderly" (Fibra) electronic database, carried out between 2008 and 2009, in which 2,558 community-dwelling elderly were recruited. The dependent variable was self-rated health compared with peers of the same age, among the elderly. The odd ratios were adjusted for sociodemographic and health variables and were estimated through multinomial logistic regression. The analyses were carried out using the program Stata 14.0. RESULTS: The average age of the elderly participants was 72.3 years old (SD ± 5.5) and 65.6% of them were women. When comparing with someone of the same age, 70.2% of the participants rated their health as better than the other's; 23.4% of them rated it as equal, and 6.4% of the elderly rated it as worse. The adjusted regression model showed that the odd ratios were more important when rating health as worse among the elderly participants who were dependent on instrumental activities (OR = 2.19; 95%CI 1.22-3.92) and h...

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When peer support may be most beneficial: the relationship between upward comparison and perceived threat

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To support and to be supported. A qualitative study of peer support centres in cancer care in Norway

The association between self-rated health and functional capacity indicators

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