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Parenting and Family Concerns of Couples Navigating Advanced Breast Cancer: Exploring Discussions Around Parenting Challenges and Targets for Intervention.
Psychooncology
January 2025
Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Background: Parents with advanced cancer and their partners are more likely to experience psychological distress than their counterparts without minor children. Greater relationship functioning may support parents in distress.
Aims: The current study seeks to explore couples' cancer-related parenting communication behaviors, perception and their associations with psychological and relational wellbeing.
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Families Addressing Cancer Together for Parents With Cancer: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects.
Psychooncology
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of Families Addressing Cancer Together (FACT), a web-based, individually tailored, psychoeducational intervention for parents with cancer to improve illness-related communication with their minor children.
Methods: Parents with stage I-IV solid tumors who had children ages 3-17 were randomized to 6 weeks of FACT versus waitlist control. Feasibility was assessed by rates of recruitment and retention.
Exploring "good days" with advanced cancer: A pilot daily diary study.
Palliat Med
January 2025
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Background: People with Stage IV cancer face physical and emotional challenges impacting quality of life. Conventional quality of life measures do not capture daily fluctuations in patient well-being.
Aim: This pilot study used daily diaries to explore the concept of a "good day" living with advanced cancer and to identify activities associated with "good days" as well as associations between daily "goodness" and conventional quality of life measures.
Using Collective Intelligence to Develop Design Requirements for a Complex Intervention for Advance Care Planning in the Community.
J Clin Nurs
January 2025
School of Psychology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Background: Engaging people in advance care planning is a challenging systemic problem that requires a social innovation approach and a conceptual framework to guide behavioural and social change efforts.
Aim: To identify stakeholders' perspectives on barriers to advance care planning engagement, options for overcoming these barriers, and user needs. The findings will inform the design of a health behaviour change intervention for engaging older adults (50+) in advance care planning.
Social Support and Treatment Delays in Breast Cancer Patients Within an Integrated Health Care System.
Psychooncology
November 2024
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigated how social support affects the timing of surgery and chemotherapy in women with breast cancer at a healthcare system in Northern California.
- Out of 3,983 women analyzed, those with lower social support had a higher likelihood of experiencing delays in surgery and chemotherapy after diagnosis.
- Specifically, younger women (under 54) with low social support were significantly more likely to face delays in chemotherapy compared to older women.
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