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Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness
Chronic illness can negatively impact adolescents’ and young adults’ social support. Social support can buffer the negative impact of living with chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to test the acceptability of a hypothetical message to promote social support after a recent diagnosis of a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10189708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37195582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10880-023-09956-2 |
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author | Igler, Eva C. Austin, Jillian E. Sejkora, Ellen K. D. Davies, W. Hobart |
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description | Chronic illness can negatively impact adolescents’ and young adults’ social support. Social support can buffer the negative impact of living with chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to test the acceptability of a hypothetical message to promote social support after a recent diagnosis of a chronic illness. Young adults (18–24; m = 21.30; N = 370), the majority of which were Caucasian, college-students, and female, were asked to read one of four vignettes and to imagine this situation happened while they were in high school. Each vignette contained a hypothetical message from a friend diagnosed with a chronic illness (cancer, traumatic brain injury, depression, or eating disorder). Participants answered forced-choice and free-response questions asking about the likelihood they would contact or visit the friend, and feelings about receiving the message. A general linear model was used to assess quantitative results, and qualitative responses were coded using the Delphi coding method. Participants responded positively, reporting a high likelihood to contact the friend, and feeling glad to receive the message regardless of vignette viewed; however, those who read the eating disorder vignette were significantly more likely to express discomfort. In qualitative responses, participants described positive emotions associated with the message and desire to support the friend. However, participants reported significantly greater discomfort with the eating disorder vignette. The results provide evidence for the potential of a short, standardized disclosure message to promote social support following chronic illness diagnosis with some additional considerations for those recently diagnosed with an eating disorder. |
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spelling | pubmed-101897082023-05-19 Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness Igler, Eva C. Austin, Jillian E. Sejkora, Ellen K. D. Davies, W. Hobart J Clin Psychol Med Settings Article Chronic illness can negatively impact adolescents’ and young adults’ social support. Social support can buffer the negative impact of living with chronic illness. The purpose of this study was to test the acceptability of a hypothetical message to promote social support after a recent diagnosis of a chronic illness. Young adults (18–24; m = 21.30; N = 370), the majority of which were Caucasian, college-students, and female, were asked to read one of four vignettes and to imagine this situation happened while they were in high school. Each vignette contained a hypothetical message from a friend diagnosed with a chronic illness (cancer, traumatic brain injury, depression, or eating disorder). Participants answered forced-choice and free-response questions asking about the likelihood they would contact or visit the friend, and feelings about receiving the message. A general linear model was used to assess quantitative results, and qualitative responses were coded using the Delphi coding method. Participants responded positively, reporting a high likelihood to contact the friend, and feeling glad to receive the message regardless of vignette viewed; however, those who read the eating disorder vignette were significantly more likely to express discomfort. In qualitative responses, participants described positive emotions associated with the message and desire to support the friend. However, participants reported significantly greater discomfort with the eating disorder vignette. The results provide evidence for the potential of a short, standardized disclosure message to promote social support following chronic illness diagnosis with some additional considerations for those recently diagnosed with an eating disorder. Springer US 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10189708/ /pubmed/37195582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10880-023-09956-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Igler, Eva C. Austin, Jillian E. Sejkora, Ellen K. D. Davies, W. Hobart Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness |
title | Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness |
title_full | Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness |
title_fullStr | Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness |
title_full_unstemmed | Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness |
title_short | Friends’ Perspective: Young Adults’ Reaction to Disclosure of Chronic Illness |
title_sort | friends’ perspective: young adults’ reaction to disclosure of chronic illness |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10189708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37195582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10880-023-09956-2 |
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