Trial reportPloS one2019
Resilience in middle-aged partners of patients diagnosed with incurable cancer: A thematic analysis.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Resilience in advanced cancer caregiving. A systematic review and meta-synthesis.Palliative medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring the role of spirituality and the meaning of life of family caregivers: a qualitative study in Germany.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Do all roads lead to Rome? An ideal-type study on trajectories of resilience in advanced cancer caregiving.PloS one · 2024Article
- Finding a path in a methodological jungle: a qualitative research of resilience.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- Resilience in advanced cancer caregiving promoted by an intimate partner's support network: insights through the lens of complexity science. A framework analysis.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
- Trapped in a double cage: How patients' partners experience the diagnosis of advanced cancer in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.Palliative medicine · 2022Article
- Factors associated with resilience in spousal caregivers of patients with cancer: An integrative review.Nursing open · 2021Review
- Resilience in family caregivers of patients diagnosed with advanced cancer - unravelling the process of bouncing back from difficult experiences, a hermeneutic review.The European journal of general practice · 2020Review
- Resilience in Informal Caregivers of Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Content Analysis Study.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
backgroundProviding care for patients with advanced cancer is often the responsibility of the partner. Being confronted with an incurable cancer diagnosis can be highly disruptive for the patient's partner and can be considered a potentially traumatic event. However, most caregivers seem to adapt well during the process of providing care. This finding is in line with the concept of resilience in literature: a dynamic process of adapting well, resulting from the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic resources and risks. Resilience is age-related, with the elderly population being higher in resilience as compared to the younger generation. However, resilience has been understudied in middle-aged caregivers.
aimTo explore what intrinsic and extrinsic resources facilitate or hamper resilience in the middle-aged partner of a patient with incurable cancer.
methodsNine middle-aged partners of patients who died at home of cancer were selected and interviewed in depth within the first year following the death of their partner. A thematic analysis utilizing an inductive approach was conducted.
findingsResilience was challenged by the partner's diagnosis of incurable cancer. All participants made use of a set of interacting, caregiver-specific and context-related resources, facilitating a resilient process and leading to positive feelings and even personal growth. The partners demonstrated individual competences: adaptive flexibility, positivism, a sense of self-initiative and adaptive dependency. Furthermore, they relied on their context: cancer-related professionals and relatives. Context and situation interact continuously. The resulting dynamics were based on the context-availability, meaningful relationships and the patient's role.
conclusionA resilient trajectory results from an interplay between individual and contextual resources. To build resilience in middle-aged partners of patients with incurable cancer, health care professionals should address all available resources. Moreover, they should be aware of being part of the caregiver's context, a complex adaptive system that can be either resilience-supporting or -threatening.
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