TY - JOUR
T1 - Lung cancer patients and their spouses
T2 - Psychological and relationship functioning within 1 month of treatment initiation
AU - Carmack Taylor, Cindy L.
AU - Badr, Hoda
AU - Lee, Ji H.
AU - Fossella, Frank
AU - Pisters, Katherine
AU - Gritz, Ellen R.
AU - Schover, Leslie
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (1 R03-CA96462-01) to Cindy L. Carmack Taylor, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, and in part by a cancer prevention fellowship to Hoda Badr, Ph.D., funded through National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant R25 CA57730 (Robert M. Chamberlain, Ph.D., Principal Investigator).
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - Background: Lung cancer morbidity and mortality may increase the risk for distress in couples facing this malignancy. Purpose: We examined the prevalence of psychological and relationship distress in lung cancer patients and their spouses, predictors of psychological distress for both, and whether relationship satisfaction moderated the relation between patient and spouse distress. Methods: Participants (169 patients and 167 spouses) completed questionnaires provided during clinic appointments at baseline (within one month of treatment initiation) and through the mail 3 and 6 months later. Analyses were from the baseline data. Results: In total, 34.6% of patients and 36.4% of spouses reported psychological distress. Patient and spouse distress were correlated, depending on the symptom examined. Only 10.9% of patients and 14.1% of spouses reported distressed spousal relationships. Distress predictors for patients included less positive social interaction support, more behavioral disengagement and self-distraction coping, and the spouse reporting less use of humor for coping. Predictors for spouses included more behavioral disengagement and substance use coping, more blaming the patient for causing the cancer, and the patient using more behavioral disengagement coping. Relationship satisfaction moderated the association between each partner's distress. Conclusions: Psychosocial counseling for lung cancer patients should include spouses and target decreasing individual distress and enhancing relationship satisfaction.
AB - Background: Lung cancer morbidity and mortality may increase the risk for distress in couples facing this malignancy. Purpose: We examined the prevalence of psychological and relationship distress in lung cancer patients and their spouses, predictors of psychological distress for both, and whether relationship satisfaction moderated the relation between patient and spouse distress. Methods: Participants (169 patients and 167 spouses) completed questionnaires provided during clinic appointments at baseline (within one month of treatment initiation) and through the mail 3 and 6 months later. Analyses were from the baseline data. Results: In total, 34.6% of patients and 36.4% of spouses reported psychological distress. Patient and spouse distress were correlated, depending on the symptom examined. Only 10.9% of patients and 14.1% of spouses reported distressed spousal relationships. Distress predictors for patients included less positive social interaction support, more behavioral disengagement and self-distraction coping, and the spouse reporting less use of humor for coping. Predictors for spouses included more behavioral disengagement and substance use coping, more blaming the patient for causing the cancer, and the patient using more behavioral disengagement coping. Relationship satisfaction moderated the association between each partner's distress. Conclusions: Psychosocial counseling for lung cancer patients should include spouses and target decreasing individual distress and enhancing relationship satisfaction.
KW - Couples and lung cancer
KW - Psychosocial distress
KW - Relationship satisfaction
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U2 - 10.1007/s12160-008-9062-7
DO - 10.1007/s12160-008-9062-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 18797978
AN - SCOPUS:55549108672
SN - 0883-6612
VL - 36
SP - 129
EP - 140
JO - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Annals of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 2
ER -