Youngmee Kim

..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...

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

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

..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)...

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

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

..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...

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

..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...

..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...

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

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..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...

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..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...

..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...

..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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..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...

..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...

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..The Nutrition and Physical Activity (NuPA) study was designed to promote fruit and vegetable consumption, physical activity, and weight management for a working population...

..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...

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

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