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ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2020

Labeled as lucky: contradictions between what women and healthcare professionals experience regarding the need for help after the early stages of gynecological cancer.

Lise Bjerrum Thisted, Vibeke Zoffmann, Mette Linnet Olesen

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Article in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Lise Bjerrum ThistedRigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen, Denmark. lise.bjerrum.thisted@regionh.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9701-3796
Vibeke ZoffmannRigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mette Linnet OlesenRigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Abstract

purposeTo explore how participants perceived a nurse-led, person-centered intervention, Guided Self-Determination Gynecological Cancer (GSD-GYN-C) and how participants felt it influenced the challenges they faced and their rehabilitation after gynecological cancer surgery.

methodsParticipants were invited from a previously conducted randomized trial where GSD-GYN-C improved physical quality of life in the intervention group. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis.

resultsThree central themes were identified: (1) "labeled as the lucky ones," which describes a contrast between the women's perceived problems and the healthcare professionals' tendency to stress their luck in being treated early and cured with no particular problems in sight, leading to an unintended delay in their rehabilitation process; (2) "personal reflections pave the way for change," which shows how new problem-solving skills were mobilized when reflection sheets and dialogue on GSD-GYN-C provided new insight into their situation and the feeling of being taken seriously; and (3) "emerging relational competence," which describes the new skills the women developed in interacting with family, friends, colleagues, and healthcare professionals.

conclusionsAs a supplement to usual care, GSD-GYN-C remedied a tendency among healthcare professionals to underestimate problems in the early stages of gynecological cancer, and GSD-GYN-C involved the women in their rehabilitation process characterized by active problem-solving in relationships with other people.

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AdultFemaleGenital Neoplasms, FemaleHealth PersonnelHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingQualitative ResearchQuality of LifeEmpowermentGuided self-determinationGynecological cancerNurse-led interventionRehabilitationSelf-management

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