Ann Schafenacker

TL;DR: Women with recurrent breast cancer are in need of programs to assist them with the severe effects of the disease on their quality of life, and programs need to include family members to help counteract the negative effects ofThe recurrent disease onTheir mental health, and to enable them to continue as effective caregivers.

TL;DR: There is a significant, reciprocal relationship between patient and caregiver emotional distress and evidence-based interventions can reduce distress and anxiety, but often are not implemented in practice.

TL;DR: Patients with advanced breast cancer and their family caregivers, who participated in a family based intervention, report better quality of life and other psychosocial outcomes than dyads who received standard care alone.

TL;DR: Whether a family‐based intervention could improve appraisal variables, coping resources, coping strategies, self‐efficacy, communication, symptom distress, and quality of life in men with prostate cancer and their spouses is determined.

TL;DR: Comparing coping strategies used by patients with advanced breast cancer and their family caregivers and to examine how those strategies related to patient and caregiver quality of life showed that among both patients and family caregivers, active coping was associated with higherquality of life and avoidant coping wasassociated with lower quality oflife.