A little help from my friends: social support in palliative rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social support has been shown to buffer some difficulties of living with advanced cancer. The Palliative Rehabilitation Program (prp) was an interdisciplinary outpatient program offering post-treatment palliative rehabilitation to patients with advanced cancer. Social support was directly integrated into the program. The aim of the present study was to examine the types and sources of social support that patients found most beneficial.

Methods

Twelve patients participated in 30-minute semi-structured interviews. Thematic content analysis was used to explore the social support experiences of those patients in the prp. Patients were eligible to participate in the interview if they had completed the 8-week prp, spoke English, and did not have cognitive or auditory im

SUBMITTER: Rutkowski NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature