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Profiles of dyadic adjustment for advanced prostate cancer to inform couple-based intervention
- Source :
- Psychologyhealth. 30(11)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The purpose of the study is to describe from a relational perspective, partners' psychological adjustment, coping and support needs for advanced prostate cancer.A mixed methods design was adopted, employing triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data, to produce dyadic profiles of adjustment for six couples recruited from the urology clinics of local hospitals in Tasmania, Australia.Dyads completed a video-taped communication task, semi-structured interview and standardised self-report questionnaires.Themes identified were associated with the dyadic challenges of the disease experience (e.g. relationship intimacy, disease progression and carer burden). Couples with poor psychological adjustment profiles had both clinical and global locus of distress, treatment side-effects, carer burden and poor general health. Resilient couples demonstrated relationship closeness and adaptive cognitive and behavioural coping strategies. The themes informed the adaption of an effective program for couples coping with women's cancers (CanCOPE, to create a program for couples facing advanced prostate cancer (ProCOPE-Adv).Mixed method results inform the development of psychological therapy components for couples coping with advanced prostate cancer. The concomitance of co-morbid health problems may have implications for access and engagement for older adult populations in face-to-face intervention.
- Subjects :
- Male
Coping (psychology)
Sexual Behavior
Closeness
Disease
Emotional Adjustment
Prostate cancer
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Spouses
Applied Psychology
Qualitative Research
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Disease progression
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Australia
Prostatic Neoplasms
Cognition
General Medicine
General Chemistry
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Distress
Caregivers
Disease Progression
Female
General health
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14768321
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychologyhealth
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3e798a1c4bc283ffa82a26dd3ce60995