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Parents Coping with Stillbirth: Detachment or Attachment?
Stillbirth, a major crisis for parents, is marked by strong emotional, mental and behavioral reactions. Coping with and adjusting to the loss is instantaneous at the moment when parents are told that there is no heartbeat. At once they are forced to make three difficult decisions: Should they look at or hold their dead baby? …
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Motivation to give birth after breast cancer.
Background: Breast cancer at a young age threatens the natural developmental tasks that characterize this phase in life including parenthood. The dilemma of whether to give birth arises due to the potential medical, psychological and social implications of pregnancy, birth and child rearing after breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the positive …
Transmission of response to trauma? Second-generation Holocaust survivors’ reaction to cancer.
Objective: Opinions differ about the effects of the Holocaust on the adult offspring of survivors. The authors studied cancer patients who were second-generation Holocaust survivors in an attempt to determine whether they react to their illness with the high distress found to be a characteristic of Holocaust survivors. Method: In a study population of women with breast …
The role of religious and spiritual beliefs in coping with malignant melanoma: An Israeli sample
This preliminary study examined the possible relationship between a newly developed instrument, the Spiritual Beliefs Inventory (SBI-54), and the coping style of a group of cancer patients in Israel. The sample consisted of 100 malignant melanoma patients diagnosed at stages I and II, A and B. Patients were individually interviewed at home and completed seven …
Cancer in married couples: Higher or lower distress?
This study focuses on the question of what occurs when both spouses become seriously ill. Our hypothesis was that psychological distress in married couples involving two ill partners is far higher than when only one partner is ill. The study group comprised 20 married couples, in which both spouses were diagnosed with cancer. Two comparison groups were …
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The role of psychological variables in a group of melanoma patients: An Israeli sample
This study examined whether there is a difference in the psychological distress and/or coping modes of patients with early localized malignant melanoma. The authors compared the patients diagnosed at stages IA and B of the disease with those diagnosed at stages IIA and B. The population consisted of 100 melanoma patients who agreed to take …
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Couples and gender relationship: a sample of melanoma patient and their spouses.
Studied the adjustment and coping of malignant melanoma patients and their spouses by means of self-reports of 50 couples (aged 24–76 yrs). 28 couples with men as the patients and 22 couples with women as the patients were interviewed individually. The Medical Outcome scale, Brief Symptom Inventory, Profile of Mood States, Impact of Events scale, …
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