
Psychosocial characteristics associated with breast cancer survivors' intimate partners' needs for information and support after primary breast cancer treatment
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- Evelyn Pauwels (UGent) , Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij (UGent) , Caroline Charlier (UGent) , Lilian Lechner and Elke Van Hoof
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- This study examines which psychosocial characteristics are associated with breast cancer survivors' partners' posttreatment needs for information and support. Eighty-four partners completed measures of coping, social support, illness representations, perceived stress, self-efficacy, anxiety, depression, and marital malfunctioning. Partners in need reported higher anxiety and depression, emotional illness representations, and emotion-oriented coping than partners without needs. Moreover, partners needing information and support took a more negative view on the timeline and consequences of their spouse's posttreatment condition. Interventions aimed at enhancing partners' posttreatment adjustment should focus on partners responding emotionally as well as perceiving their spouse's condition as a chronic condition.
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- breast cancer, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, care needs, psychosocial characteristics, partners, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, FAMILY CAREGIVERS, HOSPITAL ANXIETY, DEPRESSION SCALE, SOCIAL SUPPORT, SPOUSES, COUPLES, survivorship, RELATIVES, ADJUSTMENT
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2101791
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- Pauwels, Evelyn, et al. “Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Breast Cancer Survivors’ Intimate Partners’ Needs for Information and Support after Primary Breast Cancer Treatment.” JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY, vol. 30, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1–20, doi:10.1080/07347332.2011.633982.
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- Pauwels, E., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Charlier, C., Lechner, L., & Van Hoof, E. (2012). Psychosocial characteristics associated with breast cancer survivors’ intimate partners’ needs for information and support after primary breast cancer treatment. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY, 30(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347332.2011.633982
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- Pauwels, Evelyn, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Caroline Charlier, Lilian Lechner, and Elke Van Hoof. 2012. “Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Breast Cancer Survivors’ Intimate Partners’ Needs for Information and Support after Primary Breast Cancer Treatment.” JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY 30 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347332.2011.633982.
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- Pauwels, Evelyn, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Caroline Charlier, Lilian Lechner, and Elke Van Hoof. 2012. “Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Breast Cancer Survivors’ Intimate Partners’ Needs for Information and Support after Primary Breast Cancer Treatment.” JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY 30 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1080/07347332.2011.633982.
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- 1.Pauwels E, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Charlier C, Lechner L, Van Hoof E. Psychosocial characteristics associated with breast cancer survivors’ intimate partners’ needs for information and support after primary breast cancer treatment. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY. 2012;30(1):1–20.
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- [1]E. Pauwels, I. De Bourdeaudhuij, C. Charlier, L. Lechner, and E. Van Hoof, “Psychosocial characteristics associated with breast cancer survivors’ intimate partners’ needs for information and support after primary breast cancer treatment,” JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ONCOLOGY, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2012.
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