Is intrapersonal emotional competence a personal resource for the quality of life of informal caregivers of cancer patients unlike interpersonal emotional competence?

Introduction: This study assessed the influence of intrapersonal (one's own emotions) and interpersonal (emotions of others) emotional competence (EC) of informal caregivers on their quality of life (QoL) at the beginning of cancer care.

Methods: Participants completed two questionnaires assessing their intrapersonal and interpersonal EC (S-PEC) as well as their QoL (SF-36) at the beginning of treatments. Multivariate ANCOVA regression analyses were then performed to explore the influence of EC on QoL.

Postoperative complications and symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with gastric and esophageal cancer: a retrospective cohort study.

Context: Gastric and oesophageal cancers are common. They are also expected to increase in incidence in the next few years and are characterized by poor prognosis. Surprisingly, whereas the incidence of severe anxiety and depression is high in patients with gastric and oesophageal cancers, the influence of symptoms of depression and anxiety on postoperative complications has barely been explored.

Qualitative evaluation of motives for acceptance or refusal of early palliative care in patients included in early-phase clinical trials in a French comprehensive cancer center: the PALPHA study.

Purpose: The integration of palliative care (PC) into oncological management is recommended well before the end of life. It improves quality of life and symptom control and reduces the aggressiveness of end-of-life care. However, its appropriate timing is still debated.

Supportive care needs and anxious-depressive symptoms in cancer patients: An interaction effect between emotional competence and the COVID-19 pandemic?

The main objective was to assess the link between emotional competence (EC) and adjustment outcomes such as supportive care needs (SCN) and anxious-depressive symptoms in cancer patients starting chemotherapy. The second objective was to assess the interaction effect between EC and the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e.

Supportive care needs of adolescents and young adults 5 years after cancer: a qualitative study.

Introduction: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors who have been treated for cancer during childhood and adolescence are at great risk of the physical, psychological, and social consequences of cancer and its associated treatments. However, compliance with long-term follow-up is low. One possible explanation is that follow-up care fails to meet the expectations of AYA survivors.

Association between emotional competence and risk of unmet supportive care needs in caregivers of cancer patients at the beginning of care.

Purpose: This cross-sectional study explored the associations between intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional competence (EC) and the unmet supportive care needs (SCN), anxiety, and depression of informal caregivers at the beginning of gastrointestinal or haematological cancer care, i.e. during chemotherapy and within 6 months after diagnosis.

An Integrated Cancer Prevention Strategy: the Viewpoint of the Leon Berard Comprehensive Cancer Center Lyon, France.

This article describes some of the key prevention services in the Leon Berard Comprehensive Cancer Center (CLB) Lyon, France, which are based on clinical prevention services, outreach activities, and collaboration with professional and territorial health communities. In addition, research is embedded at all stages of the prevention continuum, from understanding cancer causes through to the implementation of prevention interventions during and after cancer. Health promotion activities in the community and dedicated outpatient primary cancer prevention services for individuals at increased risk have been implemented.

Happy thus survivor? A systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between cancer survival and positive states, emotions, and traits.

Objectives: Traditionally, the literature investigating patient-reported outcomes in relation to cancer survival focused on negative factors such as distress. Meta-analyses in this field have provided a clear identification of negative affect that reduce cancer survival (e.g.

Caregivers' perception of patients' interpersonal and psychiatric alterations: What is the impact on their health?

Purpose: Previous research conducted among caregivers of patients with cancer revealed a poor Quality of Life (QoL) and high levels of distress. In addition to the influence of patients' clinical state, caregivers' appraisals of patients' difficulties should be considered as another predictor of poor caregiver health. This study aims to test the association between caregivers' health (i.

Emotional distress, supportive care needs and age in the prediction of quality of life of cancer patients' caregivers: A cross-sectional study.

Introduction: The existing literature shows a significant impact of cancer on caregivers' quality of life (QoL) and divergent results according to associated factors. To better understand the experience of cancer patients' caregivers, the present study aimed at comparing caregivers' QoL according to cancer care pathway and type of cancer, and at identifying the factors associated with their QoL.

Methods: Caregivers were included in the study either during chemotherapy or follow-up to assess their QoL (CARGOQoL), unmet supportive care needs (SCNS-P&C), and anxiety and depression levels (HADS).

The association of physician empathy with cancer patient outcomes: A meta-analysis.

Objective: In oncology, research remains unclear as to whether physician empathy is associated with patient outcomes. Our goal was to answer this question and explore potential moderators of the association.

Methods: In this meta-analysis on adult cancer care, we excluded randomised controlled trials, and studies of survivors without active disease or involving analogue patients.

Emotional processes in partners' quality of life at various stages of breast cancer pathway: a longitudinal study.

Introduction: Several studies have shown that emotional competence (EC) impacts cancer adjustment via anxiety and depression symptoms. The objective was to test this model for the quality of life (QoL) of partners: first, the direct effect of partners' EC on their QoL, anxiety and depression symptoms after cancer diagnosis (T1), after chemotherapy (T2) and after radiotherapy (T3); Second, the indirect effects of partners' EC at T1 on their QoL at T2 and T3 through anxiety and depression symptoms.

Methods: 192 partners of women with breast cancer completed a questionnaire at T1, T2 and T3 to assess their EC (PEC), anxiety and depression symptoms (HADS) and QoL (Partner-YW-BCI).

[Integrative oncology: Report and place for a dedicated consultation in a comprehensive cancer center].

Progress in the care of cancer patients has brought out new needs that go beyond the scope of conventional medicine regularly. Integrative oncology allows patients, besides specific care, to access complementary therapies (CT); with the aim of improving in this case the quality of life and the future of the patients and to help them become actors, before, during and after the treatment of their cancer. As for breast cancer management, international recommendations have been given for several years in favor of the use of CT, especially mind-body therapies, and regarded as effective care.

Unmet supportive care needs of caregivers according to medical settings of cancer patients: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: The objectives of this study were to compare the unmet supportive care needs (SCN) of caregivers and describe the 10 most frequent of them according to various cancer settings: phase of cancer care pathway (i.e., treatment vs.

Reasons for acceptance and refusal of early palliative care in patients included in early-phase clinical trials in a regional comprehensive cancer centre in France: protocol for a qualitative study.

Introduction: A few studies have highlighted the potential synergy between early palliative care and inclusion in an early-phase clinical trial that may improve quality of life, reduce symptoms of exhaustion related to the side effects of treatment and allow patients to complete their treatment protocol. The primary objective of this qualitative study is to evaluate the reasons for acceptance or refusal of early palliative care in patients included in early-phase clinical trials.

Method And Analysis: All patients from the Centre Léon Bérard (Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Lyon, France) who consent to one of the early-phase clinical trials proposed at the centre will be invited to participate in this study.

Health Workers' Perception and Emotions Surrounding Teleconsultation in Pediatric Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background And Aims: During the first lockdown of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we developed a teleconsultation model and conducted a survey-based study with the aim to evaluate satisfaction and emotions of health workers (HWs), to assess the feasibility of teleconsultations, and to evaluate technical issues.

Materials And Methods: This is a prospective monocentric exploratory study based on synchronous, video consultations between HWs and pediatric patients treated for blood or solid malignancies or blood benign diseases. Every HW completed an online survey which covered technical aspects, data concerning satisfaction, quality of the interaction with the patient, and emotions felt after the teleconsultation.

Adjustment of young women with breast cancer after chemotherapy: A mediation model of emotional competence via emotional distress.

Objective: Emotional competence (EC) is considered a substantial resource in the adjustment of cancer patients, especially via its effect on anxiety and depression symptoms. This research aimed at assessing the impact of intrapersonal EC in young women (≤45 years) with breast cancer (YWBC) on their specific quality of life (i.e.

Perceived trajectory of psychological and physical states after breast cancer: An optimistic perception.

Background: In cancer research, studying the quality of life trajectory helps us understand the complaints but also the cognitive, physical, and emotional aspects that can evolve positively. Examining both the suffering and the improvements expressed by the patients facilitates their care and their recovery knowing that an optimistic perception of the future is important for adaptative functioning after cancer. Through retrospective, present and prospective measures, we sought to characterize the subjective trajectory perceived by women with breast cancer about their cognitive, emotional and physical states, as it relates to quality of life.

Associations between the severity of medical and surgical complications and perception of surgeon empathy in esophageal and gastric cancer patients.

Objective: To assess the impact of global physician empathy and its three subdimensions (establishing rapport, emotional and cognitive processes) on the severity of postoperative complications in a sample of cancer patients.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data on 256 patients with esogastric cancer from the French national FREGAT database. Empathy and its subdimensions were assessed using the patient-reported CARE scale and the severity of medical and surgical complications was reported with the Clavien-Dindo classification system.

Is the Postsurgical Quality of Life of Patients With Esophageal or Gastric Cancer Influenced by Emotional Competence and Neoadjuvant Treatments?

Background: Emotional competence (EC) via anxiety and depressive symptoms impacts the postoperative health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of esophageal and gastric cancer patients after surgery.

Objective: The aim of this study was to confirm the involvement of emotional processes in postsurgery HRQoL according to the presence or absence of neoadjuvant treatments.

Methods: After diagnosis (T1) and after surgery (T2), 271 patients completed 3 questionnaires, assessing their intrapersonal and interpersonal EC, HRQoL, and anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Creating scripted video-vignettes in an experimental study on two empathic processes in oncology: Reflections on our experience.

Objective: The aims were to: (1) apply the guidelines to develop and test the validity of video-vignettes manipulating empathy and context in oncology; (2) compare lay people's and patients' assessments of validity; (3) reflecting on our experiment METHODS: Guidelines were followed: (1) deciding whether video-vignettes were appropriate; (2) developing a valid script; (3) designing valid manipulations; (4) converting the scripted consultations into videos. One hundred sixteen lay people and 46 cancer patients filled in the Video Engagement Scale, the CARE, and ad hoc questionnaires on realism and emotions.

Results: The video-vignettes are valid for experimental use.

Testing two competitive models of empathic communication in cancer care encounters: A factorial analysis of the CARE measure.

Objective: The mechanisms associating physician empathy (PE) with patient outcomes remain unclear. PE can be considered as a whole (one process) or three subcomponents can be identified (an establishing rapport process; an emotional process; a cognitive process). The objective was to test two competitive models of PE in cancer care: a three-process model adapted from Neumann's model versus a one-process model, with the use of the Consultation and Relational Empathy measure (CARE).

Social inequalities in cervical cancer screening: a discrete choice experiment among French general practitioners and gynaecologists.

Background: Cervical cancer screening is effective in reducing mortality due to uterine cervical cancer (UCC). However, inequalities in participation in UCC screening exist, especially according to age and social status. Considering the current situation in France regarding the ongoing organized UCC screening campaign, we aimed to assess general practitioners' (GPs) and gynaecologists' preferences for actions designed to reduce screening inequalities.