Perceptions About Care and Support Among Cancer Survivors With Severe Mental Health Conditions.

Background: Research on the attitudes and support received by cancer survivors with preexisting severe mental health conditions (SMHC) from their families and oncology professionals is lacking.

Aims: To explore how individuals with SMHC perceive and experience family and oncology team attitudes and care.

Methods: Participants were 25 cancer survivors, 6 men and 18 women, aged 26-86 with preexisting SMHC.

Using Drawings to Measure Emotional Processing in Breast Cancer Survivors and Its Association With Depression, Pain, and Fatigue.

Background: Conscious and unconscious emotional processing (EP) may be related to breast cancer survivors' (BCS) response to the stress of dealing with cancer and its treatment, and often entails myriad psychological and physical symptoms.

Aims: To examine the relationship between EP expressed by BCS in drawings made during art therapy and its relationship with depression, pain, and fatigue.

Methods: This cross-sectional secondary analysis used data from the Role of Emotional Processing in Art Therapy study.

Coping, Emotional Processing, and Cancer-Related Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors: Cross-Sectional Secondary Analysis of the REPAT Study.

Objective: As survival rates from breast cancer increase, the post-treatment period poses several challenges, including a high burden of cancer-related symptoms that interfere with quality of life. This study aims to provide a better understanding of the relationship between coping (approach and avoidance), emotional processing (emotional awareness and acceptance of emotions), and cancer-related symptoms.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional, secondary analysis of baseline data from a randomized controlled trial entitled "The Role of Emotional Processing in Art Therapy" (REPAT) study.

Differences in Emotional Awareness Moderate Cytokine-Symptom Associations Among Breast Cancer Survivors.

Cancer survivors have elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines, which could be associated with cancer-related symptoms. Given that proinflammatory cytokines heighten negative affect by directly affecting the brain, we explored these direct associations and whether differences in levels of emotional awareness moderate the associations between proinflammatory cytokines and cancer-related symptoms. This cross-sectional, secondary analysis of baseline data was collected from 162 female breast cancer survivors (aged 36-70 years), who were enrolled 6 ± 4 months after completing cancer treatment.

A Theoretical Model of Emotional Processing in Visual Artmaking and Art Therapy.

Current theoretical models of emotional processing rely mainly on detecting emotional processing through verbal, conscious, and cognitive processes. However, artmaking can potentially reveal embodied and implicit processes that may otherwise remain hidden in verbal expression. This paper attempts to close the scholarly gap by introducing a novel art-based emotional processing model that integrates emotional processing and art therapy literature, incorporating emotional meaning-making, awareness, acceptance, and memory consolidation.

The associations of emotion regulation, self-compassion, and perceived lifestyle discrepancy with breast cancer survivors' healthy lifestyle maintenance.

Purpose: Unhealthy lifestyle increases the risk of comorbidities, reduced quality of life, and cancer recurrence among breast cancer survivors. It is important to identify emotional and cognitive factors that may affect the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle over time. This study examined the associations of perceived lifestyle discrepancy, self-compassion, and emotional distress with the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle among breast cancer survivors and the mediating role of emotion regulation patterns (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) in these associations.

Self-employed people with chronic health conditions: Business maintenance and well-being.

Chronic health conditions (CHCs) involve physical, psychological, and social challenges and can have a significant negative impact on work ability, which can then affect performance and job satisfaction. However, the various effects of CHCs on business operations and maintenance among self-employed workers are understudied. This study examined four common CHCs that are characterised by persistent symptoms and can prompt major life changes: respiratory disease, heart conditions, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer survivorship.

Emotional processing is not enough: relations among resilience, emotional approach coping, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans.

Combat soldiers are exposed to various potentially traumatic events and face high risk of developing military-related psychopathology, such as depression, posttraumatic stress and grief (PTSS). However, a strong body of research shows that resilience is the default in the aftermath of trauma and indeed, many veterans do not develop high symptomatic levels. To explicate this inconsistency, the current study examined the associations among PTSS, resilience, and patterns of emotional-approach coping.

Self-employed workers with chronic health conditions: A qualitative study.

Chronic health conditions affect many individuals of working age, who cope with physical, psychological, and social difficulties that often involve limited work ability. This qualitative study explored experiences of self-employed individuals with chronic health conditions to advance our understanding of the effect of chronic illness on work. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 self-employed individuals coping with cancer, heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease, lung disease, or asthma.

On their own: Business profitability and job satisfaction among self-employed with chronic health conditions.

Objectives: This study examined (a) characteristics of maintenance of business activity among self-employed individuals with chronic health conditions (CHCs) and (b) the relationships of coping strategies with maintenance of business activity.

Method: This cross-sectional study involved 294 self-employed participants aged 26-77 who were at most 2 years since their diagnosis and had one of the following CHCs: cancer (23.4%), cardiac disease (21.

Linkage between Psychological Factors and Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: A Preliminary Study.

Substantial evidence has accumulated showing that psychological distress affects immune regulation, the response to cancer treatment, and survival. The effect of psychological parameters on the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment has not yet been studied. This preliminary study aimed to (a) examine the associations between psychological factors and responses to ICI treatment and (b) assess the associations between psychological factors and blood measures of sPD-1, sCTLA-4, and cytokines that may alter the effect of ICI treatment.

Objective and Subjective Stress among Grandparents Providing Assistive Regular Grandchild Care.

Research on stress and coping has differentiated the effects of objective stress and subjective perceptions of stress on psychological and physical health, including in old age. This study examined the moderating role of social support in the relationship between objective and subjective stress with depressive and somatic symptoms in the context of Israeli grandparents. This cross-sectional study involved 243 grandparents who provided at least 5 hours a week of assistive regular care to their grandchildren, divided into lower and higher support groups.

Chronic stressors, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms: A comparison across older age groups.

Late-life depression is a prevalent mental health problem among older adults. Variations may exist in the intensity of chronic stressors experienced by people in different older age groups and their effects on depressive symptoms. To examine differences among older adults by age group in the experienced intensity of chronic stressors in relation to coping strategies and depressive symptoms.

Positive affect and fatigue as predictors of anti-inflammatory IL-10 concentrations among colorectal cancer patients during adjuvant chemotherapy.

Objectives: (1) To examine the relationships of positive and negative affect and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and fatigue at baseline with the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 concentrations in serum at three points in colorectal cancer patients; and (2) to assess the relationship between these factors and disease recurrence or mortality after a median follow-up of 24 months.

Methods: In a prospective trial, 92 stage II or III colorectal cancer patients scheduled to receive standard chemotherapy were enrolled. Blood samples were collected prior to start of chemotherapy onset (T0), 3 months later (T1), and upon chemotherapy completion (T2).

"There is a God or There is No God-It is in the Hands of God:" Fatalistic Beliefs Among Israeli People About Cancer and Their Impact on Behavioral Outcomes.

This qualitative study examined fatalistic beliefs and cancer causal attributions among people without cancer. Participants were 30 Israeli women and men aged 51-70 from diverse sociocultural backgrounds who participated in four focus groups. Three main themes emerged, referring to the variability in fatalistic beliefs of cancer occurrence and cancer outcome, the duality in attributing causality to divine providence and mere luck or chance, and the connection between distinct fatalistic beliefs and health behaviors.

The impact of cancer on psychosocial function and quality of life: A cross-sectional study in 18 pan-European countries.

Background: To improve psychosocial cancer care in Europe, more information is needed on psychosocial function and quality of life (QoL) among cancer patients in European countries.

Aims: To investigate differences in psychosocial function between cancer survivors and the general population in Europe, in relation to national economic status and personal factors.

Method: Data were from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (Wave 6).

Perceived loss of resources and adherence to guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel.

Following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world issued guidelines designed to prevent contagion. This longitudinal study explored variables associated with citizens' adherence to these guidelines. Questionnaires were administered to a panel of Israeli citizens three times: in June (Time 1, n = 896), July (Time 2, n = 712) and August (Time 3, n = 662) 2020.

The role of perceived supervisor resistance in successful work sustainability among cancer survivors.

Background: Research has indicated that managerial contact with cancer survivors during a long absence from work is related to cancer survivors' inclination to return to work.

Objective: The present study explored the roles of cancer survivors' perception of supervisor resistance to return to work (RTW) and symptom severity in the relationship between supervisor-initiated contact during the cancer survivors' absence from work and successful work sustainability (SWS).

Methods: Israeli cancer survivors (N = 149) who had been working at least 6 months after the termination of treatment completed online questionnaires.

Posttraumatic stress and COVID-19-related stressors: a prospective observational study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic may trigger posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) due to its threat to health, well-being, and survival.

Objectives: We sought to assess levels of change in PTSS at three waves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our second objective was to examine the role of four objective and subjective predictors salient to COVID-19-loss of resources, sense of loneliness, perceived COVID-19 threat, and uncertainty stress-on the trajectory of PTSS.

Burnout among oncologists and oncology nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Significant proportions of burnout have been reported among both oncologists and oncology nurses. However, these groups have not been compared in a meta-analytic design. It is important to compare how burnout affects different types of health professionals to understand its individual implications and devise ways of minimizing and treating it.

Cancer patients attending treatment during COVID-19: intolerance of uncertainty and psychological distress.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic presents specific challenges for cancer patients attending oncology treatment. Using a mixed-methods design (convergent parallel design), we aimed to assess the experience, perceptions, and reactions of cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Participants were cancer patients receiving treatment at the hospital during the pandemic (July to August 2020).

Associations Between Cancer Fatalism, Causal Attributions, and Perceptions of Benefits and Barriers to Screening for Colorectal Cancer.

Background: The aim of the study was to assess the associations between cancer causal attributions (divine providence, chance or luck, environmental or genetic factors, weak personal resilience), cancer fatalistic beliefs (cancer occurrence and outcome beliefs), and benefits of and barriers to screening for early detection of colorectal cancer.

Methods: It was a cross-sectional study of 252 individuals (46% men and 54% women) aged 50-75. Participants completed measures of cancer causal attributions, Powe's cancer fatalism questionnaire, and the benefits and barriers to colorectal cancer screening subscales of the health belief model.