Associated factors of hope in cancer patients during treatment: A systematic literature review.

Aim: To identify the associated factors of hope during treatment in cancer patients.

Background: Hope is very important to cancer patients at all stages of the disease process. Hope is seen as an important coping mechanism.

Cancer patients' experiences of communicating and dealing with their older parents: A qualitative study.

Purpose: In 2017 almost 25,000 Belgians between 40 and 60 years (38% of new diagnoses) were diagnosed with cancer. With increasing life expectancy the chance augments that these patients still have older parents alive. This implies that oncology care should also take into account the impact cancer may have on (the relationship with) older parents.

Health professionals' dealing with hope in palliative patients with cancer, an explorative qualitative research.

Hope is important for individuals with cancer in palliative care. Health professionals' perspective on hope affects the communication with palliative patients. The aim of this study was to explore how Dutch health professionals deal with palliative patients with cancer who hope for prolongation of life.

How Interdisciplinary Teamwork Contributes to Psychosocial Cancer Support.

Background: The organization of psychosocial care is rather complex, and its provision diverse. Access is affected by the acceptance and attitude of patients and professional caregivers toward psychosocial care.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to examine when patients with cancer experience quality psychosocial care and to identify circumstances in collaboration that contribute to patient-perceived positive psychosocial care.

The influence of team members on nurses' perceptions of transgressive behaviour in care relationships: A qualitative study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to gain insight into the influence of team members in how nurses perceive and address patients' transgressive behaviour.

Background: Aggression and transgressive behaviour in health care have been a focus of research over the past few decades. Most studies have focused on individual nurses' experiences with aggression and transgressive behaviour.

Trust: an essential condition in the application of a caregiver support intervention in nursing practice.

Background: The recent policy of deinstitutionalization of health care in Western countries has resulted in a growing number of people - including elderly - with severe mental illness living in the community where they rely on families and others for support in daily living. Caregiving for partners, parents, children, and significant others can be a stressful experience and has been associated with psychosocial problems and poorer physical health. To support caregivers, a new, complex, nurse-led caregiver - centered intervention was developed.

The suffering in silence of older parents whose child died of cancer: A qualitative study.

As life expectancy grows, the death of an adult child becomes a highly prevalent problem for older adults. The present study is based on nine interviews and explores the experience of parents (≥70 years) outliving an adult child. The bereaved parents described some silencing processes constraining their expression of grief.

Balancing truth-telling: relatives acting as translators for older adult cancer patients of Turkish or northwest African origin in Belgium.

The first generation of Turkish and Northwest African immigrants in Belgium are ageing and at risk for developing cancer. Relatives play an important role and provide both emotional and practical care, including mental support and acting as a contact person and/or a translator for improving access to healthcare, as most patients and their spouses have only a limited command of the language. Although access to professional interpreters has shown to be the best guarantee for qualitative healthcare, oncology health providers working with relatives as interpreters is much more common than professional interpreters.

Hope dies last … A qualitative study into the meaning of hope for people with cancer in the palliative phase.

Palliative patients may have strong hope, even hope for a cure, despite knowing their prognosis. Health professionals do not always understand patients who have this kind of hope. The aim of this article was to explore the meaning of hope among patients with cancer in the palliative phase.

An instrument to collect data on frequency and intensity of symptoms in older palliative cancer patients: A development and validation study.

Purpose: To develop and validate an instrument to collect data on symptoms (frequency/intensity) in older palliative cancer patients.

Methods: A four-phase instrument development and validation study was performed. A preliminary version of the instrument was developed through a literature review.

Perspectives of oncology health workers in Flanders on caring for patients of non-Western descent.

This study was undertaken to gain insight in the views and experiences of oncology healthcare providers in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, on caring for patients of non-Western descent. A qualitative research design with the constant comparative method was used. Data were collected through five focus group interviews, with 23 oncology health workers as participants.

Planned change or emergent change implementation approach and nurses' professional clinical autonomy.

Background: Nurses' clinical autonomy is considered important for patients' outcome and influenced by the implementation approach of innovations. Emergent change approach with participation in the implementation process is thought to increase clinical autonomy. Planned change approach without this participation is thought not to increase clinical autonomy.

Intensive insulin therapy implementation by means of planned versus emergent change approach.

Background: Nurses' participation in decisions about new care procedures and protocols is potentially of benefit for patient outcomes. Whether nurses' participation in decisions is allowed in the implementation of innovations depends on the implementation approach used for the introduction. A planned change implementation approach does not allow it, an emergent change implementation approach does.

Drug administration via enteral feeding tube in residential care facilities for individuals with intellectual disability: A focus group study on guideline implementation.

People with profound intellectual disabilities often receive medication through enteral feeding tube (EFT). In a previous study, we found that current guidelines concerning medication preparation and administration through EFT are often not followed in residential care facilities (RCFs) for individuals with intellectual disabilities. The present qualitative study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators experienced by RCF staff members to following guidelines on medication administration via EFT, by conducting focus group interviews.

Driven by Ambitions: The Nurse Practitioner's Role Transition in Dutch Hospital Care.

Introduction: Insight into nurse practitioners' (NPs') role transition can help NP students and new graduates in taking on new responsibilities in a changing and demanding healthcare context. The aim of the research was to explore the role transition from nurse to NP using the components of Meleis's Framework of Transitions.

Method: A qualitative descriptive design was used.

Oncology health workers' views and experiences on caring for ethnic minority patients: A mixed method systematic review.

Objectives: To investigate what published research reveals about the views and experiences of oncology health workers when caring for ethnic minority patients.

Design: Systematic review of qualitative and quantitative studies.

Data Sources: The following databases were systematically screened: PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, and AnthroSource.

The cost of prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers: A systematic review.

Introduction: Pressure ulcers impose a substantial financial burden. The need for high-quality health care while expenditures are constrained entails the interest to calculate the cost of preventing and treating pressure ulcers and their impact on patients, healthcare, and society.

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to provide insight into the cost of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment in an adult population.

Mental health nurses' support to caregivers of older adults with severe mental illness: a qualitative study.

Background: Literature has shown the serious impact of severe mental illness on the daily life of caregivers. We studied reported caregiver support practices by mental health nurses for use in the development of a nursing intervention. We aimed to explore current caregiver support practices by mental health nurses.

Tightrope walkers suffering in silence: A qualitative study into the experiences of older parents who have an adult child with cancer.

Background: Given the worldwide ageing of the population and the changes in the structure of society and family, the likelihood increases that older parents face a serious illness in an adult child and will even outlive their child.

Objectives: To gain insight into older parents' experiences, concerns, and dilemmas regarding their position and role as a parent of an adult child with cancer.

Design: Qualitative interview design.

Acting Independently While Living Alone: The Strategies and Struggles of Cancer Patients.

Cancer patients who live alone place specific importance on acting independently during treatment. We want to describe what it means to act independently and which strategies patients use to continue to act independently. We used a qualitative design, based on grounded theory.

The cost of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment in hospitals and nursing homes in Flanders: A cost-of-illness study.

Introduction: The economic impact of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment is high. The results of cost-of-illness studies can assist the planning, allocation, and priority setting of healthcare expenditures to improve the implementation of preventive measures. Data on the cost of current practice of pressure ulcer prevention or treatment in Flanders, a region of Belgium, is lacking.

Learning to attain an advanced level of professional responsibility.

Background: After graduation, nurse practitioner students are expected to be capable of providing complex, evidence-based nursing care independently, combined with standardized medical care. The students who follow work-study programs have to develop their competencies in a healthcare environment dominated by efficiency policies.

Objective: This study aims to explore nurse practitioner students' perceptions of their professional responsibility for patient care.

The parents' ability to attend to the "voice of their child" with incurable cancer during the palliative phase.

Objective: In pediatric oncology, parents want, and are expected, to act and decide in the best interest of their child. A recent qualitative study (PRESENCE study) indicated that parents had difficulty in doing so. The aim of this subanalysis was to describe and offer an explanation for the parents' actions in expressing and handling of "the voice of the child.

Factors Influencing Adherence in Cancer Patients Taking Oral Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Nonadherence in cancer patients taking oral anticancer drugs is common. Reasons for nonadherence are still not really understood as influencing factors are often complex, dynamic, and interrelated.

Objective: A qualitative study was conducted to gain insight into (non-)adherence behavior in patients taking oral tyrosine kinase inhibitors by exploring (1) processes and factors influencing (non-)adherence and (2) their interrelatedness.

Factors influencing the occupational trajectory of patients with systemic sclerosis: a qualitative study.

Objectives: To describe, from the patient's point of view, the factors influencing the occupational trajectory of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc).

Methods: This was a qualitative study designed using grounded theory with constant comparison. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 14 patients who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology or Leroy-Medsger criteria for SSc.