Hulpverlener in de oncologie (zelfzorg ea)

Zorgverleners in de thuiszorg komen steeds meer in contact met cliënten met kanker. Deze cliënten kregen vaak slecht nieuws te horen bij hun diagnose, tijdens de behandeling of daarna. Hoe reageer je hierop? Hoe ga je om met hun emoties? Hoe hou je rekening met de naasten?

In navolging van de brochure "Slecht nieuws meedelen aan kankerpatiënten en hun naasten" (2014) ontwikkelde het CHi in samenwerking met Kom op tegen Kanker en dr. Katrien Bombeke een uitgave gericht op huisartsen en zorgverleners in de thuiszorg. Hierbij wordt rekening gehouden met de specifieke context van de thuiszorg en de relatie van de zorgverlener met de patiënt. Naast ruimte voor emoties van de patiënt, wordt aandacht besteed aan de gevoelens die dit oproept bij de zorgverlener en worden er tips gegeven voor zelfzorg.

Objective: In cancer care, optimal communication between patients and their physicians is, among other things, dependent on physicians' emotion regulation, which might be related to physicians' as well as patients' characteristics. In this study, we investigated physicians' emotion regulation during communication with advanced cancer patients, in relation to physicians' (stress, training, and alexithymia) and patients' (sadness, anxiety, and alexithymia) characteristics.

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Objective: Psychosocial interventions are historically underutilized by cancer caregivers, but support programs delivered flexibly over the Internet address multiple barriers to care. We adapted Meaning‐Centered Psychotherapy for cancer caregivers, an in‐person psychotherapeutic intervention intended to augment caregivers' sense of meaning and purpose and ameliorate burden, for delivery in a self‐administered web‐based program, the Care for the Cancer Caregiver (CCC) Workshop. The present study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of this program.

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Caregivers of advanced cancer. patients provide extensive care associated with high levels of caregiver distress. The degree to which cancer caregiving increases caregivers' risk for a psychiatric disorder is unknown. The current study examines whether advanced cancer caregiving poses distinct risks for initial and recurrent major depressive episodes (MDEs) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) relative to the general population.

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