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- Some cancer survivors have reported undergoing significant positive changes in their lives, referred to as "life transforming," after their experience.
- Participants in a study used a self-guided approach involving practical actions, such as researching options and reflecting on their experiences, to achieve these improvements.
- These transformations often led to the discovery of new personal strengths and resources, proving beneficial in addressing challenges beyond cancer, highlighting the importance of experiential learning in understanding these changes.
Article Abstract
Some cancer survivors report positive subjective changes they describe as "life transforming." We used a grounded theory approach to identify the content, underlying process, and identifying characteristics of self-defined "life-transforming" changes (LTCs) reported by 9 cancer survivors. To actualize their hopes for improvement, participants used a self-guided process centered on pragmatic action: researching options, gaining experience, and frankly evaluating results. Many participants discovered unanticipated personal abilities and resources, and those became highly useful in coping with other challenges apart from cancer. This made the increased personal abilities and resources "life transforming" rather than being substantially limited to reducing cancer-related problems. The action-oriented features and processes of LTCs seemed to be more fully described by experiential learning theory than by posttraumatic growth and coping. Supportive intervention to facilitate positive change processes could decrease suffering and enhance positive psychosocial and spiritual outcomes for cancer survivors.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807572 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732313499074 | DOI Listing |
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