Publications by authors named "E J Helmich"

Purpose: Advanced cancer patients may perceive their disease as an experience of contingency: a (sudden) disruption of the life-narrative evoking existential concerns such as loss of meaning and identity. The research project In Search of Stories aimed to investigate whether and how reading and discussing literary texts assisted participants in integrating their diagnosis as the experience of contingency into their life-narrative.

Methods: This qualitative study reports on interviews with 25 advanced cancer patients, who read a story from a curated collection of 10 literary texts.

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Purpose: Co-creation, characterised by artists and patients creating a joint work of art, may support patients with the integration of life events, such as living with cancer, into their life story. In the process of co-creation, resonance relationships between patients, artists and material may evolve that support such integration. Using the framework of resonance theory, we aim to investigate if and how patients move through the three phases of resonance during a process of co-creation and explore the role of uncontrollability in this process.

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Background: To prepare medical students for the growing population of older patients, an appropriate professional identity formation is desirable. The community of practice of medical school is primarily hospital-based and disease-oriented which will lead to the development of a physician who is mainly focused on cure. This focus alone however is not always appropriate for older persons' health care.

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Background: Co-creation, characterized by artists and patients creating a joint work of art, may support patients with the integration of disruptive life events into their life story, such as living with cancer. Focusing on experiences of contingency and life goals could support this process. The research questions are: (1) 'how are patient's ultimate life goals and experiences of contingency expressed in the work of art as created in a process of co-creation?'; (2) 'how do the four phases of integration of experiences of contingency unfold during co-creation?'

Methods: Ten patients who were in a palliative stage of cancer treatment completed co-creation processes.

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Objectives: In many taxa, adverse early-life environments are associated with reduced growth and smaller body size in adulthood. However, in wild primates, we know very little about whether, where, and to what degree trajectories are influenced by early adversity, or which types of early adversity matter most. Here, we use parallel-laser photogrammetry to assess inter-individual predictors of three measures of body size (leg length, forearm length, and shoulder-rump length) in a population of wild female baboons studied since birth.

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