Publications by authors named "G Ferszt"

Increasing numbers of individuals with complex, advanced illnesses are living longer and being cared for in the home by family members. As a result, family caregivers often experience physical, emotional, psychological, and social distress. A unique subset of this population are nurses who find themselves providing care in both their family lives and work lives, a phenomenon known as "double-duty caregiving.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates the experiences of cancer patients in a palliative day care program (PDCP) in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on patient perspectives.
  • Through five focus groups comprising 50 patients from the Hospice Casa Sperantei Foundation, significant themes were identified related to the timing of palliative care integration and its perceived benefits.
  • The findings emphasize the importance of PDCPs in offering continuous care, addressing various patient needs, and enhancing the quality of life by fostering connections and meaningful activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Given the increased need for palliative care services globally, the education of nurses has become paramount. In response, a group of nurses from Romania and the United States developed diverse nursing educational programs to meet the palliative care educational needs of nurses in Central-Eastern European countries. The purpose of this article is to describe a palliative nursing masterclass that was offered virtually to 59 participants, primarily nurses but also other health care professionals, from 11 Central-Eastern European countries.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objectives: Uptake of psychosocial services during cancer treatment remains relatively low. To use these services efficiently, novel approaches - based on evidence-based theory - are needed to understand cancer patients' readiness to seek psychosocial services. Guided by the transtheoretical model (TTM), we investigated individuals' readiness to use psychosocial services by assessing decisional conflict (pros/cons) and self-efficacy, which are established as the most important constructs of predicting a specific behavior.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Cancer patients frequently experience considerable distress during diagnosis and treatment. The aims of this study were to describe the development and utilization of a psychological service for cancer patients at a community hospital-and to provide preliminary results on clinical outcomes in a "real-world" clinical setting. This program was developed collaboratively by individuals from a university-based clinical psychology doctoral program and a community hospital.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF