Couples Coping With Hematological Cancer: Support Within and Outside the Couple - Findings From a Qualitative Analysis of Dyadic Interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cancer affects the patients as well as their partners. Couples use different strategies to cope with cancer and the associated burden: individual coping, dyadic coping, and support from the social network and from professional health care. The aim of this qualitative dyadic interviews is to gain a deeper and more differentiated understanding of the support system inside and outside of the couple.

Methods

Ten heterosexual couples (patients: seven men and three women) with different ages (patients: range = 22-75; spouses: range = 22-74), different hematological cancer (e.g., acute myeloid leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) and cancer stages (initial diagnosis or relapse) participated in the study. Semi-structured dyadic interviews were conducted. Data of the verbatim

SUBMITTER: Bodschwinna D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161167 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature