Resilience in advanced cancer caregiving promoted by an intimate partner's support network: insights through the lens of complexity science. A framework analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The tremendous physical and mental burden that comes with caregiving puts the intimate partners of patients diagnosed with advanced cancer at risk for mental disorders. However, most partners seem to be protected by resilience. Such a resilience process is promoted by certain individual characteristics (e.g., flexibility, positive attitude, internal strength, capacity to balance incoming and outgoing information, and ability to ask for and accept support and advice) and by the availability of a support network, consisting of family, friends, and healthcare professionals. Such a heterogeneous group striving towards the same goals can be considered a complex adaptive system (CAS), a concept stemming from complexity science.

Aims

To study the behavior of the support

SUBMITTER: Opsomer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936125 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature