Marital adjustment, depression and quality of life of women with breast cancer and their intimate partners.

Purpose: Among all the types of cancer, breast cancer occurs most frequently in women. The diagnosis and treatments for this disease generate physical and emotional discomfort that affects the quality of life of both the woman and her intimate partners.

Aim: The aim was to establish the relationship between marital adjustment, depression and quality of life of both women with breast cancer and their intimate partners.

The Meaning of the Future for Adolescent Mothers: A Grounded Theory Study.

Aim: To describe the meaning that adolescent mothers give to their future.

Design: Qualitative study with a design based on grounded theory and the approach proposed by Corbin and Strauss.

Methods: Forty-nine semistructured individual interviews were conducted with mothers between the ages of 16 and 19 living permanently with their child more than 40 days postpartum.

Experiences of Women With Breast Cancer and Their Partners in Achieving Coherence as a Couple During the Disease Journey.

Objective: To describe the experiences of female patients with breast cancer and their partners in achieving coherence as a couple during the disease journey.

Design: Qualitative study.

Setting: Colombia, South America.