Cancer Psychological Aspects
Mostrando 13-23 de 23 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Coping process in breast cancer post-treatment period / "Processo de enfrentamento no período pós-tratamento do câncer de mama".
The diagnosis of breast cancer and its treatment affect the woman s physical, social and emotional condition. To deal with stressful events triggered by the illness, the woman utilizes specific coping strategies for each stage of treatment and rehabilitation. The researches that discourse about coping with breast cancer mostly refers to the diagnosis and tre
Publicado em: 2006
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14. Os significados do tabagismo construídos na dinâmica social
The present study has the purpose of catching the significances of smoking in the social dinamics based on the Theory of Social Representations. It was developed among adults with ages from 20 to 59 years, low social and economic conditions, at Natal RN, Brazil. The Free-words Association Test was applied as the instrument of data collection and a semi-struc
Publicado em: 2006
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15. Abordagem da menopausa em textos jornalisticos veiculados em revistas de atualidades
INTRODUCTION: Journalistic texts that cover scientific topics published in news magazines usually represent sources of information and clarification for the population. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the approach to menopause in texts exclusively concerning the subject and compare its amount in relation to texts published on women?s health and general health in the
Publicado em: 2005
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16. Imagens simbolicas no adoecer : estudo descritivo sobre o processo arteterapeutico de pacientes oncologicos
This doctoral thesis deals with the introduction of art as a therapeutical resource, which is applied in the hospital context, focusing the use of artistic techniques especially in the psychotherapeutic process of oncologic patients. Based on different theoretical methods, this intervention has gradually been recognized and systematized, according to the obe
Publicado em: 2004
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17. Afrontamiento y calidad de vida. Un estudio de pacientes con cáncer
This study is part of a longitudinal research with oncologic patients and aims to analyze their quality of life and its relationship with coping. To explore and describe this aspects is important to give an integrative and interdisciplinary view about oncologic illness. The sample was gathered in an hospital of Mar del Plata, Argentina. A Quality of Life Que
Psico-USF. Publicado em: 2003-12
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18. Experiences of children with cancer in the psychological support group: phenomenological study / "Vivências de crianças com câncer no grupo de apoio psicológico: estudo fenomenológico".
This paper proposes to come into contact with childhood cancer and its consequences from the cancer-stricken childs own viewpoint, and investigate what it means for the child to be ill, seeking to find out the meaning of its experience at this particular juncture of its life. This paper is based on the qualitative research method of phenomenological inspir
Publicado em: 2002
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19. Tensão devida ao papel de cuidador entre cuidadores de crianças com cancer
This study intended to identify and to describe the tension lived by the caregiver due to the activities of taking care, in an unit of pediatric internment, with rooming in, of a Hospital of Infantile Cancer, Campinas, SP, Brazil. The research area was The Nursing Care Process . For two months 50 caregivers of children from 3 to 10 years were interviewed. Ea
Publicado em: 2002
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20. Benefits of psychosocial oncology care: Improved quality of life and medical cost offset
The burden of cancer in the worldwide context continues to grow, with an increasing number of new cases and deaths each year. A significant proportion of cancer patients at all stages of the disease trajectory will suffer social, emotional and psychological distress as a result of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Psychosocial interventions have proven efficac
BioMed Central.
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21. Brief Report: Children's Response to Serious Illness: Perceptions of Benefit and Burden in a Pediatric Cancer Population
Objective To examine a revised measure of benefit finding for children, in relation to perceptions of illness-related burden, and other measures of child psychological functioning. Methods A sample of 78 children with cancer completed the newly revised Benefit/Burden Scale for Children (BBSC) and measures of optimism/pessimism, positive/negative affect
Oxford University Press.
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22. Challenging beliefs and ethical concepts: the collateral damage of SARS
The recent SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak exploded on an unsuspecting public and functionally paralyzed health care delivery systems in many countries. Cancer treatments were deferred and elective surgeries, clinic visits and diagnostic tests were postponed. Other collateral damage includes the devastating psychological distress suffered b
BioMed Central.
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23. Exercise and Life-Satisfactory-Fitness: Complementary Strategies in the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Illnesses
Moderate training of an endurance nature, but also other exercise activities, not only has a preventive effect on various illnesses and pre-illness states such as the metabolic syndrome and cancer, but is also effective in treating patients in the rehabilitation phase after illness, e.g. cardiovascular or cancer. Our investigation demonstrates that even low
Oxford University Press.