Efficacy of a dyadic intervention to improve communication between patients with cancer and their caregivers: A randomized pilot trial
| العنوان: | Efficacy of a dyadic intervention to improve communication between patients with cancer and their caregivers: A randomized pilot trial |
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| المؤلفون: | Darius Razavi, Aurore Liénard, Julien Tiete, Nicole Delvaux |
| المصدر: | Patient education and counseling |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Patient-caregiver dyad, Psychological intervention, Pilot Projects, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Belgium, Emotional distress, Intervention (counseling), Neoplasms, Adaptation, Psychological, Medicine, Humans, Attrition, 030212 general & internal medicine, Dyadic coping, business.industry, 030503 health policy & services, Communication, Pilot trial, Cancer, General Medicine, Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles, medicine.disease, Communication Intervention, Caregivers, Physical therapy, behavior and behavior mechanisms, Support, 0305 other medical science, business |
| الوصف: | Objective: Cancer-related communication is critical for patients’ and caregivers’ adaptation to illness. This randomized pilot study was conducted to test the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a specific dyadic intervention to improve communication. Methods: A four weekly-session intervention was developed to reinforce cancer-related patient-caregiver communication. Patients receiving treatment for any diagnosed cancer, and their caregivers, were recruited from two oncology clinics in Belgium. Sixty-four patient-caregiver dyads were assigned randomly to intervention and waitlist groups. Cancer-related dyadic communication, dyadic coping and emotional distress were assessed at baseline and post-intervention. Results: The intervention attrition rate was 6 %. Linear mixed models were performed on 60 dyads. Significant two-way group × time interaction indicated improvement in participants’ cancer-related dyadic communication frequency (β = −1.30; SE = .31; p = .004), self-efficacy (β = −10.03; SE = 3.90; p = .011) and dyadic coping (β = −5.93; SE = 2.73; p = .046) after the intervention. Conclusion: These results indicate that the brief dyadic communication intervention is feasible and acceptable, and show preliminary evidence of efficacy. Practice implications: Encouraging patients and caregivers to discuss personal cancer-related concerns may improve their ability to cope with the illness together. SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
| وصف الملف: | 1 full-text file(s): application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::03c002372312c8977d004454ccd76e8d http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/315273 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....03c002372312c8977d004454ccd76e8d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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