Youngmee Kim

..Cancer caregivers, who were nominated by cancer survivors, participated in a nationwide quality-of-life survey with 252 caregivers providing complete data for the variables...

..Theoretical and practical implications of the current findings are discussed and suggestions for interventions to alleviate fatigue and depressive symptoms in cancer patients are proposed...

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..The findings suggest that helping patients and their families communicate in more satisfactory and supportive ways and maintain an organized family system might be beneficial in reducing the symptoms of chemotherapy-related nausea...

..However, the extent to which the (dis)similarity in psychological distress influences the quality of life of each person remains unknown...

..Thus, this study aimed to examine the dyadic effects of psychological distress on the quality of life of couples dealing with cancer...

..In this study we examined the prediction of caregiver well-being from the relationship qualities specified by attachment theory and from motives specified by self-determination theory...

..This study aimed to investigate the impact of cancer from family caregivers' perspective, based on a comparative analysis of caregiving burden and distress, among four types of caregivers...

..Husband caregivers will benefit from programs designed to educate them to effectively assist their wife's psychosocial adjustment to cancer by reducing their stress from providing care...

..These findings have significant implications for developing targeted programs to reduce the psychological distress of cancer caregivers with multiple roles and to assist them in recognizing their caregiving experience as meaningful...

..The authors reviewed literature on the QOL of family caregivers at the acute and middle- to long-term survivorship phases as well as the bereavement phase...

..These findings suggest that intervention programs to help reduce family conflict may be especially beneficial for younger adult and female patients...

..These results suggest that passive coping has negative implications for FHBC+ women and imply that individualized coping training programs targeting this coping strategy may prove useful for these women...

..The authors concluded that environmental circumstances and personality characteristics that focus on personal needs are more likely to provide experiences supportive of psychological well-being...

..Psychological interventions designed to facilitate coping with negative life events and to increase the occurrence of positive events may be warranted...

..These findings have implications for identifying spouses of individuals with lung cancer who are vulnerable to depression and could inform the design of programs to reduce depressive symptoms in the context of cancer caregiving...

..Guilt as a key emotional phenomenon in the cancer-caregiving experience is an understudied issue...

..Thus, this study examined individual and dyadic associations of SWB with the QOL of couples dealing with cancer...

..Therefore, determining what needs are not being satisfied for family caregivers should be the first step in the development of programs designed to enhance caregivers' QOL...

..The current study sought to: (1) document levels of physical and mental health, and marital satisfaction, and (2) evaluate the relationship between physical and mental health with marital satisfaction in this understudied population...

..Multidimensional aspects of QOL were assessed, including mental and physical health, psychological adjustment, and spirituality at 5 years post-diagnosis...

..The current study used population-based sampling to develop a formula to compute the probability of survivors completing a survivor survey and nominating their family caregivers...

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..It remains unknown, however, to what extent cancer severity is associated with the level of FOR reported by each individual in the survivor-caregiver dyad, which, in turn, is also associated with their quality of life (QOL)...

..The studies are organized by the phase of the illness trajectory studied and the association with demographic characteristics and quality-of-life outcomes...

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..Interactions between genotype and adversity emerged for both emotion-related aspects of impulsivity. Theoretical implications of the findings are discussed...

..The results suggest that patients could benefit from increased knowledge about what to expect during their radiation treatments...

..This study investigated the relations of social support and caregiving stress with caregivers' depressive symptoms during the first year since the relative's diagnosis, as well as the role of ethnicity in such relations...

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..Research has indicated spirituality buffers the adverse effect of stress, but few studies have examined the role of spirituality in the context of providing cancer care...

..The relevance of these results for several theories of motivation and personality are discussed...

..18-1.54), exhibited high activity (ED(50), 5.1 and 1.3 microM, respectively) compared with other complexes, which implies that the lipophilicity is an important factor for the antitumor activity of this series of complexes...

..Results also suggested greater internalization of horizontal relative to vertical practices. Discussion focuses on the distinction between autonomy and individualism and the relative fit of cultural forms with basic psychological needs...