'Only to reconcile with it'. The coping experience amongst middle-aged and older cancer survivors : A qualitative study
© 2024 The Authors. Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd..
BACKGROUND: Cancer threat is relevant to age, and the threat of a foreshortened life coupled with a lengthy treatment process negatively affects middle-aged and older adults. Understanding the coping throughout the cancer experience in middle-aged and older cancer survivors will help develop supportive care to promote their physiological and psychological coping effects.
OBJECTIVES: To explore the cancer coping experiences of middle-aged adults aged 40-59 and older adults over 60.
DESIGN: A descriptive phenomenological study was employed.
METHODS: Face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 oncology patients in a tertiary university hospital aged 40 or above from August to October 2023. The interview data were analyzed using thematic analysis procedures.
RESULTS: Five themes and 13 subthemes were formed through analysis: acceptance of cancer (considering cancer as chronic, believing in fate and attributing cancer to karma); having different information needs (desired to be truthfully informed, information-seeking behaviour, information avoidance behaviour); getting families involved (developing dependent behaviours, feeling emotional support, family members suffering worse); striving to maintain positive psychological state (positive thinking, seeking peer support) and negative experience (undesirable, low self-esteem).
CONCLUSION: Our study reveals that cancer survivors' attitudes towards having cancer have changed from a death sentence to a more positive perception of a chronic disease. Supportive programmes for developing coping strategies should consider the cultural traditions and religious beliefs, different information needs, involvement of family and promoting a positive psychological state while avoiding negative factors.
PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: Participants with experience of coping with cancer were involved in the semistructured interview.
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27 |
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Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy - 27(2024), 2 vom: 12. Apr., Seite e14048 |
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Englisch |
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He, Yi [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 15.04.2024 Date Revised 25.04.2024 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1111/hex.14048 |
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| 520 | |a BACKGROUND: Cancer threat is relevant to age, and the threat of a foreshortened life coupled with a lengthy treatment process negatively affects middle-aged and older adults. Understanding the coping throughout the cancer experience in middle-aged and older cancer survivors will help develop supportive care to promote their physiological and psychological coping effects | ||
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| 520 | |a DESIGN: A descriptive phenomenological study was employed | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: Face-to-face, in-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 oncology patients in a tertiary university hospital aged 40 or above from August to October 2023. The interview data were analyzed using thematic analysis procedures | ||
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