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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Neoplasms -- psychology"”.
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The reliability and validity of a manual coding system for identifying emotion
<p>Emotion focused coping and emotional expression have been identified as potential mediators of long-term adjustment to a cancer diagnosis. Tools for measuring emotional expression in text have not been well-validated, although there is an abundance of textual data that is available to help …
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Guidelines for Culturally Informed Interventions: Culture, Attributions and Continuity of Care
… by Betancourt’s integrative model of culture, psychology, and behavior, the current project proposes guidelines to facilitate studies that are theoretically and methodologically sound in making unbiased discoveries and scientific assessment. A further purpose of these guidelines is to design …
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Thought Suppression Change in Cancer Patients and Survivors After Writing
<p>Breast cancer is a debilitating and many times fatal disease that will affect approximately 215,990 women in the United States alone this year. Treatment for breast cancer can involve many physically and psychologically straining features. The illness perception theory states that individuals …
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Conceptual clarification of the structure of social support.
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the clarification of the phenomenon, social support, using a precise definition and a major theoretical perspective as a descriptive guide for the concept, structure; one of the three less abstract representations of social support. Social comparison …
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Effects of Distress on Health Care Utilization in Cancer Survivors (NHIS 2004)
<p>Distress rates have been found to be around 43%, as indicated by a study of five comprehensive cancer centers and as measured by the Distress Thermometer (Jacobsen, et ah, 2005). Furthermore, few studies have examined the current health care utilization among cancer patients as predicted by …
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Qualitative Study of Psychosocial Needs for Individuals with Lung Cancer
Lung cancer affects many people in the United States, accounting for 14.5% of cancer cases in 2010. Additionally, it is responsible for more cancer-related deaths than any other cancer type. Those living with lung cancer also experience a higher prevalence of psychological distress and mood …
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Coping as a Mediator between Symptom Burden and Distress in Lung Cancer Patients
<p>Lung cancer is considered the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. An estimated 224,390 new cases of lung cancer are expected to be diagnosed and 158,080 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer in 2016 (National Institutes of Health, 2016; Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2016). Lung cancer …
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Cancer Center Regional Benchmarks for Psychosocial Care
<p>The American College of Surgeons (ACoS) Commissions on Cancer (CoC) formulated and implemented standard 3.2 for Psychosocial Distress Screening. This standard requires that all accredited cancer centers evaluate psychosocial distress and provide appropriate triage and intervention for all cancer …
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Breast Cancer Patients' Perspectives on the Helpfulness of Supportive Offerings
<p>Research suggests that breast cancer patients seek and benefit from social support that they view as helpful. Previous qualitative studies have explored overtly negative behaviors by family and friends in some depth. Several quantitative studies have explored how support that is viewed as …
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Lung Cancer Stigma: Associated Variables and Coping Strategies
<p>Lung cancer stigma is a burgeoning area of literature, yet two important questions remain unanswered: a) What are the associations between lung cancer stigma and psychosocial outcomes across lung cancer survivors with different smoking histories and b) how would lung cancer survivors describe …
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The Relationship Between the Level of Support Group Participation and Psychosocial Factors in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Proton Therapy
… p < 001).</p> <p><strong>Implications for psychology and preventive care</strong>. A better understanding of the characteristics of participants may help practitioners design groups that are more attractive to current non-participants. Perceptions about the benefits and usefulness of …