Signalising psychosocial problems in cancer care :the structural use of a short psychosocial checklist during medical or nursing visits.

Objective: In this summary of literature, we evaluated 16 studies with respect to recognition and screening for psychosocial problems of cancer patients during nursing or medical visits, and with respect to the effects of providing quality of life information during these visits.

Methods: A review of the literature was conducted. To obtain the relevant literature, a search was made of two databases: Medline and Nursing and Allied Health Literature.

Communication between nurses and simulated patients with cancer: evaluation of a communication training programme.

In this paper the effect of a communication training programme on the instrumental and affective communication skills employed by ward nurses during the admittance interview with recently diagnosed cancer patients was investigated. The training focused on teaching nurses skills to discuss and handle patient emotions. For this purpose, 46 nurses participated in 92 videotaped admittance interviews with simulated patients.

Communication skills of nurses during interactions with simulated cancer patients.

Aim: In this paper the balance of affective and instrumental communication employed by nurses during the admission interview with recently diagnosed cancer patients was investigated.

Rationale: The balance of affective and instrumental communication employed by nurses appears to be important, especially during the admission interview with cancer patients.

Methods: For this purpose, admission interviews between 53 ward nurses and simulated cancer patients were videotaped and analysed using the Roter Interaction Analysis system, in which a distinction is made between instrumental and affective communication.

Evaluation of communication training programs in nursing care: a review of the literature.

An important aspect of nursing care is communication with patients. Nurses' major communication tasks are not only to inform the patient about his/her disease and treatment, but also to create a therapeutically effective relationship by assessing patients' concerns, showing understanding, empathy, and providing comfort and support. In this review, 14 studies, which focus on the evaluation of the effects of communication training programs for nurses, have been evaluated.

Nurse-patient communication in cancer care. A review of the literature.

Patients with cancer seem to experience distress particularly in the first period after diagnosis, and are likely to develop an affective disorder in the first 2 to 3 months. Communicative behaviors of nurses seem to play an important role in meeting the cognitive and affective needs of patients with cancer. This review of the literature examines the communicative behaviors of nurses during care activities with patients who have cancer.