Together but still alone - A qualitative study exploring how family members of persons with incurable oesophageal or gastric cancer manage everyday life

Cancer affects not only the person with the disease but those around them. Being a family member is described as strenuous and, often, associated with stress, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. There is a heightened risk of distress for family of those with fast-progressing, severe oesophageal or g...

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Published in:BMC palliative care 2024-10, Vol.23 (1), p.249-10, Article 249
Main Authors: Kårmark, Sofia, Malmström, Marlene, Kristensson, Jimmie
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Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Care and treatment
Caregivers
Diagnosis
Domestic relations
Early palliative care
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal Neoplasms - psychology
Esophageal Neoplasms - therapy
Family - psychology
Family members
Female
Females
Gastric cancer
Health aspects
Health Sciences
Humans
Hälsovetenskap
Illnesses
Interviews
Male
Medical and Health Sciences
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Middle Aged
Nurses
Nursing
Oesophageal cancer
Omvårdnad
Palliative care
Palliative Care - methods
Palliative Care - psychology
Palliative treatment
Patients
Psychological aspects
Qualitative Research
Quality of life
Social aspects
Stomach cancer
Stomach Neoplasms - psychology
Stomach Neoplasms - therapy
Stress
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description Cancer affects not only the person with the disease but those around them. Being a family member is described as strenuous and, often, associated with stress, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. There is a heightened risk of distress for family of those with fast-progressing, severe oesophageal or gastric cancer. Early palliative care involving family is vital yet often overlooked. In order to include family members in early palliative care their management in everyday life needs to be explored. Qualitative inductive interview study using content analysis guided by Graneheim and Lundman. The analysis resulted in the overarching theme "Managing the disease together but still alone". Three categories were identified: Adapting to the disease, Taking control of the situation, Processing emotions. Each category described family members management in various aspects of everyday life together with the ill person and alone. The results may contribute to an awareness of family members' management of large parts of everyday life and, further, their feelings of loneliness, and indicates that family members should be included early in oesophageal or gastric cancer palliative care. Further studies are needed to develop the content of such family-inclusive early palliative care.
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Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Care and treatment
Caregivers
Diagnosis
Domestic relations
Early palliative care
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal Neoplasms - psychology
Esophageal Neoplasms - therapy
Family - psychology
Family members
Female
Females
Gastric cancer
Health aspects
Health Sciences
Humans
Hälsovetenskap
Illnesses
Interviews
Male
Medical and Health Sciences
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Middle Aged
Nurses
Nursing
Oesophageal cancer
Omvårdnad
Palliative care
Palliative Care - methods
Palliative Care - psychology
Palliative treatment
Patients
Psychological aspects
Qualitative Research
Quality of life
Social aspects
Stomach cancer
Stomach Neoplasms - psychology
Stomach Neoplasms - therapy
Stress
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