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Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case
BACKGROUND: Cancer patients often search for information about their health conditions online. Cancer patient narratives have established themselves as a way of providing information and education but also as an effective approach to improving coping with the disease. OBJECTIVE: We investigated how...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10349243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37132762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13760 |
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author | Canella, Claudia Inderbitzin, Martin Oehler, Manuela Witt, Claudia M. Barth, Jürgen |
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description | BACKGROUND: Cancer patients often search for information about their health conditions online. Cancer patient narratives have established themselves as a way of providing information and education but also as an effective approach to improving coping with the disease. OBJECTIVE: We investigated how people affected by cancer perceive cancer patient narratives and whether such stories can potentially improve coping during their own cancer journeys. Additionally, we reflected on whether our co‐creative citizen science approach can contribute to gaining knowledge about cancer survival stories and providing peer support. DESIGN, SETTING AND STAKEHOLDERS: We applied a co‐creative citizen science approach by using quantitative and qualitative research methods with stakeholders (i.e., cancer patients, their relatives, friends and health professionals). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Understandability and perceived benefits of cancer survival stories, coping, emotional reactions to the stories and helpful characteristics of the stories. RESULTS: Cancer survival stories were considered intelligible and beneficial, and they potentially support positive emotions and coping in people affected by cancer. Together with the stakeholders, we identified four main characteristics that evoked positive emotions and that were considered especially helpful: (1) positive attitudes towards life, (2) encouraging cancer journeys, (3) individual coping strategies for everyday challenges and (4) openly shared vulnerabilities. CONCLUSIONS: Cancer survival stories potentially support positive emotions and coping in people affected by cancer. A citizen science approach is suitable for identifying relevant characteristics of cancer survival stories and may become a helpful educational peer support resource for people coping with cancer. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS: We adopted a co‐creative citizen science approach, wherein citizens and researchers were equally involved throughout the entire project. |
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spelling | pubmed-103492432023-07-16 Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case Canella, Claudia Inderbitzin, Martin Oehler, Manuela Witt, Claudia M. Barth, Jürgen Health Expect Original Articles BACKGROUND: Cancer patients often search for information about their health conditions online. Cancer patient narratives have established themselves as a way of providing information and education but also as an effective approach to improving coping with the disease. OBJECTIVE: We investigated how people affected by cancer perceive cancer patient narratives and whether such stories can potentially improve coping during their own cancer journeys. Additionally, we reflected on whether our co‐creative citizen science approach can contribute to gaining knowledge about cancer survival stories and providing peer support. DESIGN, SETTING AND STAKEHOLDERS: We applied a co‐creative citizen science approach by using quantitative and qualitative research methods with stakeholders (i.e., cancer patients, their relatives, friends and health professionals). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Understandability and perceived benefits of cancer survival stories, coping, emotional reactions to the stories and helpful characteristics of the stories. RESULTS: Cancer survival stories were considered intelligible and beneficial, and they potentially support positive emotions and coping in people affected by cancer. Together with the stakeholders, we identified four main characteristics that evoked positive emotions and that were considered especially helpful: (1) positive attitudes towards life, (2) encouraging cancer journeys, (3) individual coping strategies for everyday challenges and (4) openly shared vulnerabilities. CONCLUSIONS: Cancer survival stories potentially support positive emotions and coping in people affected by cancer. A citizen science approach is suitable for identifying relevant characteristics of cancer survival stories and may become a helpful educational peer support resource for people coping with cancer. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS: We adopted a co‐creative citizen science approach, wherein citizens and researchers were equally involved throughout the entire project. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10349243/ /pubmed/37132762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13760 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Canella, Claudia Inderbitzin, Martin Oehler, Manuela Witt, Claudia M. Barth, Jürgen Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case |
title | Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case |
title_full | Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case |
title_fullStr | Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case |
title_full_unstemmed | Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case |
title_short | Cancer survival stories: Perception, creation, and potential use case |
title_sort | cancer survival stories: perception, creation, and potential use case |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10349243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37132762 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13760 |
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