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Authors' response to "Comment on - effects of family participatory dignity therapy on the psychological well-being and family function of patients with hematologic malignancies and their family caregivers: A randomised controlled trial".

26 May 2021-International Journal of Nursing Studies (Int J Nurs Stud)-Vol. 120, pp 103965-103965
About: This article is published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.The article was published on 2021-05-26. It has received None citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Family caregivers.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a family participatory dignity therapy program, a patient-family-centred psychological intervention, which was developed based on dignity therapy and performed by one therapist in the form of interview according to a specific question prompt.

22 citations

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Chunfeng Wang1, Jingyi Chen1, Ying Wang1, Rong Hu1, Yong Wu1 
TL;DR: It is shown that FPDT was a valuable and feasible means of improving communication between patients with haematologic neoplasms and their family caregivers in China by raising the hope level and spiritual well-being and promoting general health.
Abstract: Objective To develop a communication prompt based on dignity therapy to facilitate effective conversations between patients with haematologic neoplasms and their family caregivers and to improve the programme and preliminarily explore the benefits and challenges of family participatory dignity therapy (FPDT). Methods A mixed-methods approach was applied to develop and revise the programme. The FPDT was developed and validated using the Delphi survey, and its further improvement was explored with a simple one-group pre- and post-trial and semi-structured in-depth interviews. Results Most of the FPDT items were endorsed by experts and patient-family dyads. The Content Validity Index was 93.6% in the first round of the Delphi survey and 100% in the second round. The "hope level," "spiritual well-being" and "general health" scores of pre- and post-testing increased from 33.60 ± 4.30 to 37.70 ± 5.10 (t = 3.99, p = .003); from 30.30 ± 3.65 to 38.80 ± 7.29(t = 4.13, p = .003); and from 41.67 ± 8.78 to 53.33 ± 8.05 (t = 3.50, p = .007) respectively. The qualitative data also indicated that the project was meaningful and well received. Conclusions We showed that FPDT was a valuable and feasible means of improving communication between patients with haematologic neoplasms and their family caregivers in China by raising the hope level and spiritual well-being and promoting general health.

11 citations