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Couples' patterns of adjustment to colon cancer
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Gender differences were found, with women reporting more distress, more role problems, and less marital satisfaction, regardless of whether they were patient or spouse.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2000-01-01. It has received 483 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beck Hopelessness Scale & Distress.read more
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Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2012
Rebecca L. Siegel,Carol DeSantis,Katherine S. Virgo,Kevin Stein,Angela B. Mariotto,Tenbroeck Smith,Dexter L. Cooper,Ted Gansler,Catherine C. Lerro,Stacey A. Fedewa,Chun Chieh Lin,Corinne R. Leach,Rachel S. Cannady,Hyunsoon Cho,Steve Scoppa,Mark Hachey,Rebecca A. Kirch,Ahmedin Jemal,Elizabeth Ward +18 more
TL;DR: Common cancer treatments, survival rates, and posttreatment concerns are summarized and the new National Cancer Survivorship Resource Center is introduced, which has engaged more than 100 volunteer survivorship experts nationwide to develop tools for cancer survivors, caregivers, health care professionals, advocates, and policy makers.
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Associations of Stressors and Uplifts of Caregiving With Caregiver Burden and Depressive Mood: A Meta-Analysis
Martin Pinquart,Silvia Sörensen +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is found that the association of caregiver burden with the number of care Giving tasks, perceived uplifts of caregiving, and the level of physical impairment of the care receiver were stronger in probability samples than in convenience samples.
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Distress in couples coping with cancer: A meta-analysis and critical review of role and gender effects
TL;DR: The association between patient and partner distress within couples was only moderate but is sufficient to warrant further consideration of the notion that these couples react as an emotional system rather than as individuals, and attention needs to be directed toward factors other than cancer as direct influences of distress in these couples.
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Review of the literature on the effects of caring for a patient with cancer.
Una Stenberg,Cornelia M. Ruland,Cornelia M. Ruland,Christine Miaskowski,Christine Miaskowski +4 more
TL;DR: To adequately help family caregivers of cancer patients, clinicians need to understand the complexity of the problems and responsibilities associated with cancer patients illness that FCs experience.
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Health Psychology: Psychological Adjustment to Chronic Disease
TL;DR: A progressively convincing characterization of risk and protective factors for favorable adjustment to chronic illness has emerged and critical issues for future research are identified.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping
Richard S. Lazarus,Susan Folkman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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Statistical Principles in Experimental Design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the principles of estimation and inference: means and variance, means and variations, and means and variance of estimators and inferors, and the analysis of factorial experiments having repeated measures on the same element.
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Statistical Principles in Experimental Design
TL;DR: This chapter discusses design and analysis of single-Factor Experiments: Completely Randomized Design and Factorial Experiments in which Some of the Interactions are Confounded.
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Measuring Dyadic Adjustment: new scales for assessing the quality of marriage and similar dyads
TL;DR: The Dyadic Adjustment Scale as discussed by the authors is a measure for assessing the quality of marriage and other similar dyads, which is designed for use with either married or unmarried cohabiting couples.
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