Understanding Elderly Chinese Cancer Patients in a Multicultural Clinical Setting: Embracing Mortality and Addressing Misperceptions of Vulnerability.

Chinese patients face higher risks of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers and greater cancer-related deaths than Canadian-born patients. The older population encounters barriers to quality healthcare, impacting their well-being and survival. Previous studies highlighted Chinese immigrant perceptions of not requiring healthcare support.

Coping style and typology of perceived social support of male partners of women with breast cancer.

This article reports on one component of an exploratory qualitative study, namely male partners' coping style of self-reliance, and the perceived social support that these partners relied upon to cope with their wife's breast cancer. Data were drawn from a larger study designed to explore male partners' perceived needs and the services they preferred to address these needs following their wife's diagnosis of breast cancer. The 27 male partners participating in this study were significantly affected by their wife's breast cancer.

Preconsultation Educational Group Intervention Can Address the Knowledge Gap in Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction.

Background: Whether to undergo postmastectomy breast reconstruction (PMBR) is a challenging, preference-sensitive decision. It is therefore paramount to optimize decision quality through ensuring patients' knowledge and aligning treatments with their personal preferences. This study assessed the effects of a preconsultation educational group intervention (PEGI) on patient knowledge, state-trait anxiety, and decisional conflict (patient uncertainty in decision making) during the decision-making process.

Partner's survivorship care needs: An analysis in head and neck cancer patients.

Purpose: To determine the number, type and predictors of unmet needs for head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors' partner's.

Methods: Partners of HNC patients were invited to complete the Cancer Survivors' Partners Unmet Needs Survey (CaSPUN). Analysis determined number, proportion and factors associated with greater unmet needs using linear regression.

Prevalence and nature of survivorship needs in patients with head and neck cancer.

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the number, type, and predictors of patients with head and neck cancer unmet survivorship needs.

Methods: This study accrued patients with head and neck cancer at any time point in their survivorship course, and they completed a survey, including demographic information and the Cancer Survivors' Unmet Needs Measure (CaSUN).

Results: The median age of the 158 participants was 64 years.

Pre-consultation educational group intervention to improve shared decision-making for postmastectomy breast reconstruction: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Breast cancer survivors who make preference-sensitive decisions about postmastectomy breast reconstruction often have large gaps in knowledge and undergo procedures that are misaligned with their treatment goals. We evaluated the feasibility and effect of a pre-consultation educational group intervention on the decision-making process for breast reconstruction.

Methods: We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) where participants were randomly assigned to the intervention with routine education or routine education alone.

'Knowledge is power': perceived needs and preferred services of male partners of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.

Purpose: The aim of this qualitative exploratory study was to assess the perceived needs and preferred services of male partners of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.

Methods: Twenty-seven male partners participated in semi-structured telephone interviews. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim.

Pre-consultation educational group intervention to improve shared decision-making in postmastectomy breast reconstruction: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Background: The Pre-Consultation Educational Group INTERVENTION pilot study seeks to assess the feasibility and inform the optimal design for a definitive randomized controlled trial that aims to improve the quality of decision-making in postmastectomy breast reconstruction patients.

Methods/design: This is a mixed-methods pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial that will follow a single-center, 1:1 allocation, two-arm parallel group superiority design.

Setting: The University Health Network, a tertiary care cancer center in Toronto, Canada.

Helping Her Heal-Group: a pilot study to evaluate a group delivered educational intervention for male spouses of women with breast cancer.

Background: Distress in husbands of women with early-stage breast cancer may be equivalent to or even higher than their wives. Husbands often struggle to help and support their wives cope with the illness and its treatment. In response, we developed a five-session group educational counselling intervention (Helping Her Heal-Group (HHH-G)) for husbands of women with early-stage breast cancer.

Getting back on track: evaluation of a brief group psychoeducation intervention for women completing primary treatment for breast cancer.

Objective: Patients with breast cancer experience unmet informational and psychosocial needs at the end of treatment. A brief psychoeducational intervention delivered at this transition may help to address some of the challenges these women face. The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a single-session group psychoeducational intervention (GBOT group) compared with standard print material (usual care).

Self-efficacy, perceived preparedness, and psychological distress in women completing primary treatment for breast cancer.

The present analyses were conducted to examine demographic and clinical variables associated with mood and health-related distress in a sample of 440 women completing primary treatment for early-stage breast cancer. The authors' aim was to test the hypothesis that higher levels of self-efficacy and perceived preparedness for the end of treatment--the reentry phase--are associated with better mood and lower health-related distress in this sample. Women who had received chemotherapy and who were younger (<50 years) had significantly higher mood disturbance and health-related distress scores.