Lise Fillion

..This study highlights the complexity and the value of cancer navigation and recommends relevant actions to optimize its management within the health care system...

..To elaborate, refine, and validate the professional navigation framework in a Canadian context...

..These results suggest that a brief psycho-educational group intervention focusing on active coping strategies and physical activity is beneficial to cancer survivors after breast cancer treatments...

..Frankl's existential therapeutic approach, called logotherapy, serves as the underlying theoretical framework to this intervention...

..Several recommendations are formulated, one being the importance of situating the implementation process from an organizational change perspective...

..The objective of this study was to test its efficiency to improve job satisfaction and quality of life in PC nurses from three regional districts in Quebec Province, Canada...

..To discuss professional cancer navigation roles, models, implementation process and outcomes of patients and families dealing with head and neck cancers. One specific research is presented as an illustration...

..We strongly advocate for the continuation of joint efforts in order to define and clarify this complex role...

..Although further validation is recommended, the results for the French Canadian MFI in assessing cancer-related fatigue in both women and men undergoing cancer treatments showed good psychometric qualities...

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..As such, there could be some common elements of the good death that transcend culture or ethnicity. Chief among these is the desire of rural people to die at home or in their home communities...

..24). Sensitivity: Associations were consistent with patients' functional status (ECOG) and FCs' unmet needs. The CBS-EOLC is a reliable and valid measure available in French and English...

..Few studies have focused on patient and physician expectations regarding PCP involvement in cancer care...

..This study aims to describe emotional distress and quality of life (QoL) of patients at different phases of their lung cancer and the association with their family physician (FP) involvement...

..Twelve-month cohort study...

..The aim of this study was to validate a new screening questionnaire to identify workers at risk of being absent from work for more than 182 cumulative days and who are more susceptible to benefit from prevention interventions...

..As well-being is inconsistent with the state of emotional distress, animal-assisted therapy may be a beneficial intervention to alleviate distress in the child, his family and caregivers...

..These results encourage us to test the PACSLAC in a comprehensive program of pain management targeting this population...

..To verify the predictive capacity of the stress-process theory to emeanplain persistent fatigue following completion of breast cancer treatments; to verify the relationship between interleukin-1b and fatigue...

..We undertook a prospective longitudinal study of patients with lung cancer to assess their family physician's involvement in their follow-up at the different phases of cancer...

..These findings are consistent with recent studies and highlight the importance of meaning-making strategies in psychological adjustment to bereavement for palliative care nurses...

..To assess the effect of an educational homecare program on pain relief in patients with advanced cancer...

..This paper is a report of the item selection process and evaluation of the content validity of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool for non-verbal critically ill adults...

..Rurality was identified as a dominant consideration for further study...

..Educational needs were positively related to psychological distress, and negatively related to perceived self-efficacy in providing good palliative care...

..009). A specific intervention on delirium, tailored to the needs of the family caregivers, seems beneficial for caregivers and for patients...

..Little research has been done on pain assessment in critical care, especially in patients who cannot communicate verbally...

..This version can be used to examine the importance of organizational aspects in studies on the prevention of chronic disability...

..Four themes in the Alberta data highlight critical elements of the good rural death. These findings are expected to contribute to rural/remote palliative and end-of-life care developments...

..The authors conclude that providing EoL/PC is stressful for ICU nurses and that education and support programs should be developed to ensure quality EoL/PC in the critical care environment...

..These results are consistent with the findings of several recent articles on the psychosocial role of oncology nurses...

..Moreover results suggest that symptom management (physical area) and all-around coordination (care interventions, appointments, exams, practitioners) in the practical area are paramount throughout the care trajectory...

..This adaptation of the stress model makes it possible to integrate risk factors into a reduced set of meaningful factors and proposes a more general adaptation explanation of disability than the specific fear-avoidance model...

..This discussion article focuses on the theoretical development of a shared theory in the field of palliative care nursing through a process of comparison between Bandura's social cognitive theory and Orem's conceptual model...

..The definition derived from this concept analysis, after being tested empirically, may be useful in informing the development of new measures of spirituality and new protocols to assess spirituality in clinical settings...

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..However, for the most part these indicators are not specific to pain, limiting their usefulness in this context. The study aslo suggests recommendations for nursing practice and ideas for nursing resarch...

..A study was conducted to identify determinants of diagnostic delay in order to develop strategies to reduce the waiting time for breast cancer diagnosis...

..The objectives of this study were to identify a risk factor associated with the food during the banquet and to identify measures of control for avoiding this kind of outbreak in the future...

..Little research has been conducted to validate pain assessment tools in critical care, especially for patients who cannot communicate verbally...