- Title
- Coping patterns and psychosocial distress in female partners of prostate cancer patients
- Creator
- Couper, Jeremy; Bloch, Sidney; Love, Anthony; Duchesne, Gillian; MacVean, Michelle; Kissane, David
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/61794
- Identifier
- vital:2407
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/02646830600643916
- Identifier
- ISSN:0033-3182
- Abstract
- Background: With medical advances since the 1990s, a growing proportion of patients are living for many years with prostate cancer (PCA) and the consequences of its treatment. Objective: The authors investigated the experience of being diagnosed with cancer and the effects of its treatment on patients' partners. Method: The authors conducted an observational, longitudinal study of 103 couples facing the diagnosis of either localized (potentially curable) or metastatic (incurable) PCA at Time 1 and then 6 months later (Time 2). Results: At both Time 1 and Time 2, psychological distress, marital satisfaction, and family functioning were measured in patients and partners; coping was measured in partners only. Partner maladaptive coping patterns of avoidance and self-blame at Time 1 predicted greater partner psychological distress at Time 2, as did "wishful thinking" at Time 2. Discussion: Psychosocial interventions designed to promote adaptive coping in couples facing PCA warrant systematic study. (Psychosomatics 2009; 50: 375-382)
- Publisher
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- Relation
- Psychosomatics Vol. 50, no. 4 (2009), p. 375-382
- Rights
- Copyright American Psychiatric Publishing
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1103 Clinical Sciences; Men; Wives; Adjustment; Husbands; Spouses
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