Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (het intentioneel trainen van aandacht aan gedachten, emoties, sensaties op een milde en accepterende wijze) blijkt in diverse meta-analyses voor een diverse pop
Adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy in women with breast cancer is low, and patients are not informed sufficiently. This study analyzes the effects of a structured treatment information on patients' satisfaction, knowledge, and adherence.
The main objective of this dissertation was to gain insight into the preferences of advanced lung cancer patients for receiving information and participating in decision-making concerning treatment options, health-care setting transfers and end-of-life decision-making (ELDs). In the course of one year, physicians in thirteen hospitals in Flanders, Belgium, recruited patients with initial non-small-cell lung cancer, stage IIIb or IV.
The objective is to explore changes over time in the information and participation preferences of newly diagnosed stage IIIb/IV non-small-cell lung cancer patients. Patients were recruited by physicians in 13 hospitals and interviewed every 2 months until the fourth and every 4 months until the sixth interview. Sixty-seven patients were interviewed three times.
Cancer patients and their family caregivers often report elevated levels of depressive symptoms, along with poorer mental and physical health (quality of life: QOL). Although the mutuality in distress between patients and their caregivers is relatively well known, unknown are the degree to which caregivers' depressive symptoms independently predict their patient's QOL and vice versa, and whether the relations vary by cancer type or gender.
To investigate family functioning in families with an adolescent survivor of a pediatric brain tumor. We explored whether adolescent, parent, disease and treatment factors, and demographic characteristics predicted family functioning.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 45 adolescent survivors of pediatric brain tumors and their parents completed self-report questionnaires on family functioning, and emotional and behavioral problems. Parents completed questionnaires on their own mental health and the burden of treatment.
Rumination, the repetitive and recursive rehearsal of cognitive content, has been linked to depression and anxiety in physically well populations, and to post-traumatic growth (PTG) in physical illness populations. Women diagnosed with breast cancer may experience both psychological distress and PTG. As rumination may influence outcomes through distinct pathways, this study investigated the association of intrusion, brooding and instrumental subcomponents of rumination with psychological distress and PTG in the breast cancer context.
