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Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research

OBJECTIVES: This study explored factors that play a role in psychological adaptation and recovery of young people with sarcoma. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: National Health Service hospitals in the UK. METHODS: Using purposive sampling, participants were recruited for semistructured interview...

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Autores principales: Kosir, Urska, Bowes, Lucy, Taylor, Rachel M, Gerrand, Craig, Windsor, Rachael, Onasanya, Maria, Martins, Ana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33234628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038799
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author Kosir, Urska
Bowes, Lucy
Taylor, Rachel M
Gerrand, Craig
Windsor, Rachael
Onasanya, Maria
Martins, Ana
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Bowes, Lucy
Taylor, Rachel M
Gerrand, Craig
Windsor, Rachael
Onasanya, Maria
Martins, Ana
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description OBJECTIVES: This study explored factors that play a role in psychological adaptation and recovery of young people with sarcoma. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: National Health Service hospitals in the UK. METHODS: Using purposive sampling, participants were recruited for semistructured interviews over the telephone or face to face in order to answer questions about how cancer impacted various domains of their life. Data were analysed using a framework approach. RESULTS: Thirty participants, aged 15–39 years with primary sarcoma diagnosis provided in-depth accounts of their experience. Emerging themes from the interviews were grouped into two overarching themes that relate to one’s adaptation to illness: individual level and environmental level. The qualitative nature of our study sheds light on meaningful connections between various factors and their role in one’s psychological adaptation to sarcoma. We devised a visual matrix to illustrate how risk and protective factors in adaptation vary between and within individuals. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that young people with sarcoma report an array of both positive and negative factors related to their illness experience. The route to recovery is a multifactorial process and a one-size-fits-all approach to psychosocial care proves inadequate. We propose that moving beyond the latent constructs of resilience and psychopathology towards a dynamic model of psychological adaptation and recovery in this population can result in optimisation of care. We offer some recommendations for professionals working with young people with sarcoma in clinic and research.
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spelling pubmed-76848132020-11-30 Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research Kosir, Urska Bowes, Lucy Taylor, Rachel M Gerrand, Craig Windsor, Rachael Onasanya, Maria Martins, Ana BMJ Open Oncology OBJECTIVES: This study explored factors that play a role in psychological adaptation and recovery of young people with sarcoma. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: National Health Service hospitals in the UK. METHODS: Using purposive sampling, participants were recruited for semistructured interviews over the telephone or face to face in order to answer questions about how cancer impacted various domains of their life. Data were analysed using a framework approach. RESULTS: Thirty participants, aged 15–39 years with primary sarcoma diagnosis provided in-depth accounts of their experience. Emerging themes from the interviews were grouped into two overarching themes that relate to one’s adaptation to illness: individual level and environmental level. The qualitative nature of our study sheds light on meaningful connections between various factors and their role in one’s psychological adaptation to sarcoma. We devised a visual matrix to illustrate how risk and protective factors in adaptation vary between and within individuals. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that young people with sarcoma report an array of both positive and negative factors related to their illness experience. The route to recovery is a multifactorial process and a one-size-fits-all approach to psychosocial care proves inadequate. We propose that moving beyond the latent constructs of resilience and psychopathology towards a dynamic model of psychological adaptation and recovery in this population can result in optimisation of care. We offer some recommendations for professionals working with young people with sarcoma in clinic and research. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7684813/ /pubmed/33234628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038799 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Kosir, Urska
Bowes, Lucy
Taylor, Rachel M
Gerrand, Craig
Windsor, Rachael
Onasanya, Maria
Martins, Ana
Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
title Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
title_full Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
title_fullStr Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
title_full_unstemmed Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
title_short Psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
title_sort psychological adaptation and recovery in youth with sarcoma: a qualitative study with practical implications for clinical care and research
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7684813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33234628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038799
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