Evaluation of the living with hope program for rural women caregivers of persons with advanced cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hope has been identified as a key psychosocial resource among family caregivers to manage and deal with the caregiver experience. The Living with Hope Program is a self-administered intervention that consists of watching an international award winning Living with Hope film and participating in a two week hope activity ("Stories of the Present"). The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Living with Hope Program on self-efficacy [General Self-Efficacy Scale], loss and grief [Non-Death Revised Grief Experience Inventory], hope [Herth Hope Index] and quality of life [Short-Form 12 version 2 (SF-12v2)] in rural women caring for persons with advanced cancer and to model potential mechanisms through which changes occurred.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Duggleby W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3852040 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature