Individuals with cancer and their families assume responsibility for management of cancer
as an acute and chronic disease. Yet, cancer lags other chronic diseases in its provision of
proactive self-management support in routine, everyday care leaving this population …

Patient engagement in treatment decisions is endorsed by countless studies and lived
experiences. Patient partnership is a widely studied concept because data show that
involved patients are more knowledgeable, satisfied, and compliant. After interviewing 57 …

OBJECTIVES: To examine the use of and assess patient satisfaction with survivorship care
plans (SCPs). SAMPLE & SETTING: 189 cancer survivors recruited from five cancer
treatment center locations (Avera Cancer Institute in Aberdeen, Mitchell, Sioux Falls, and …

In March 2020, the World Health Organization announced the Covid-19 outbreak a
pandemic and restrictive measures were enacted by the Governments to fight the spread of
the virus. In Italy, these measures included a nationwide lockdown, with limited exceptions …

Questo contributo presenta un intervento psicologico rivolto a giovani adulti che hanno
contratto una malattia oncologica sistemica durante l'adolescenza. L'intervento trova il suo
fondamento in quattro riferimenti teorici: la specificità della malattia oncologica diagnosticata …

Objectives While both patients and informal caregivers report high levels of cancer-related
distress, supportive care needs of relatives are often not taken into account and little is
known about mutual perception of distress within couples. Therefore, we aimed to …

Dyadic interventions simultaneously engage both people with dementia (PWD) and their
informal caregivers (ICGs). This scoping review study identified the strategies for engaging
dyads, described the perceptions of the dyads on these strategies, and reported the attrition …

In this chapter, we describe a model for understanding the process by which same-sex male
couples cope with prostate cancer. The model incorporates individual factors (eg,
sociodemographics, perceptions of cancer treatment), couple-and relationship-level factors …

Lo scopo principale di questo contributo è esplorare come variabili individuali e relazionali
incidono sulla percezione corporea di pazienti con tumore al seno, contraddistinguendo
diversi pattern personali e tipologie di legame. A tal fine è stato condotto uno studio …

Nel presente contributo viene descritto un progetto sperimentale attivato all'interno della
Casa Circondariale di Cremona nell'anno 2017, espressione di un approccio psico-culturale
teso a valorizzare gli interventi di elaborazione e trasformazione dei comportamenti e degli …