scholarly journals The Impact of Illness Perceptions and Coping Strategies on Use of Supportive Care for Cancer

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2501
Author(s):  
Peta Stephenson ◽  
Eva Yuen ◽  
Gemma Skaczkowski ◽  
Evelien R. Spelten ◽  
Sheina Orbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supportive Care ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Common Sense Model ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
The Common ◽  
Support Programmes ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Model

Despite evidence that survivorship support programmes enhance physical and psychosocial wellbeing, cancer patients and survivors often do not use these supportive care services. This study investigated the utility of the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation for predicting supportive care use following cancer, and the mediating role of coping strategies. Cancer patients and survivors (n = 336 from Australia, n = 61 from the UK; 191 males, 206 females) aged 20–83 years (Mean (M) = 62.73, Standard Deviation (SD) = 13.28) completed an online questionnaire. Predictor variables were cognitive and emotional representations of cancer, as measured by the Illness Perception Questionnaire—Revised (IPQ-R), and problem- and emotion-focused coping strategies, as measured by the Brief-Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced inventory (Brief-COPE). The outcome variable was survivorship support programme use within the preceding month. Perceived personal control over cancer predicted supportive care use, but cancer-related emotional distress did not. Coping was an inconsistent mediator of the relationships. Problem-focused coping mediated the relationship between personal control and supportive care use; emotion-focused coping did not mediate between emotional responses to cancer and the uptake of survivorship support programmes. The Common Sense Model provides a useful framework for understanding survivorship support programme use. However, more clarity around the relationship between illness beliefs and coping is required.

Using the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation to Understand the Relationship Between Symptom Reporting and Trait Negative Affect

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 989-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. McAndrew ◽  
Pablo A. Mora ◽  
Karen S. Quigley ◽  
Elaine A. Leventhal ◽  
Howard Leventhal
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Symptom Reporting ◽  
Common Sense Model ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Model

scholarly journals A Scoping Review of Stress Beliefs: Literature Integration, Measurement Issues, and Theoretical Concerns

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 595-610
Author(s):  
Christopher J Kilby ◽  
Kerry A Sherman ◽  
Viviana M Wuthrich
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Study Quality ◽  
Common Sense Model ◽  
The Common ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Model

Abstract Background Individual stress beliefs are associated with stress-related behavioral responses and health consequences. The Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation may help in understanding the role of stress beliefs in these behavioral responses and consequences. Purpose To synthesize empirical studies exploring the relationship between stress beliefs and stress-related behavioral responses and health consequences using the Common-Sense Model as a guiding framework. Methods Peer-reviewed journal articles on stress beliefs in PsycArticles, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, and Sociological Abstracts were included if they were in English, reported on adult humans. Nineteen of the 1,972 unique articles reporting on 24 studies met inclusion criteria. Study quality was assessed with existing reporting criteria. Results Four of the five Common-Sense Model representations were included across the review studies, namely Identity, Cause, Consequences, and Control. Consequences and Control-related stress beliefs are associated with stress-based health and behavioral outcomes. One study explored Identity-related stress beliefs with health outcomes, reporting no relationship. No study assessed the relationship between Cause-related stress beliefs and behaviors or health outcomes. No study has explored any aspect of Timeline-related stress beliefs. Study quality ranged from very low to very high. Conclusions There is limited evidence exploring stress-related beliefs and behaviors and health outcomes. According to the Common-Sense Model, the Timeline representations remains to be investigated in the stress context, and Identity and Cause are under-researched. This review highlights future directions for stress beliefs research.

scholarly journals The Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation: Meta-Analysis and Test of a Process Model

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin S Hagger ◽  
Severine Koch ◽  
Nikos chatzisarantis ◽  
Sheina Orbell
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Common Sense Model ◽  
The Common ◽  
Emotional Representations ◽  
Sense Model

According to the common-sense model of self-regulation, individuals form lay representations of illnesses that guide coping procedures to manage illness threat. We meta-analyzed studies adopting the model to (a) examine the intercorrelations among illness representation dimensions, coping strategies, and illness outcomes; (b) test the sufficiency of a process model in which relations between illness representations and outcomes were mediated by coping strategies; and (c) test effects of moderators on model relations. Studies adopting the common-sense model in chronic illness (k = 254) were subjected to random-effects meta-analysis. The pattern of zero-order corrected correlations among illness representation dimensions (identity, consequences, timeline, perceived control, illness coherence, emotional representations), coping strategies (avoidance, cognitive reappraisal, emotion venting, problem-focused generic, problem-focused specific, seeking social support), and illness outcomes (disease state, distress, well-being, physical, role, and social functioning) was consistent with previous analyses. Meta-analytic path analyses supported a process model that included direct effects of illness representations on outcomes and indirect effects mediated by coping. Emotional representations and perceived control were consistently related to illness-related and functional outcomes via, respectively, lower and greater employment of coping strategies to deal with symptoms or manage treatment. Representations signaling threat (consequences, identity) had specific positive and negative indirect effects on outcomes through problem- and emotion-focused coping strategies. There was little evidence of moderation of model effects by study design, illness type and context, and study quality. A revised process model is proposed to guide future research which includes effects of moderators, individual differences, and beliefs about coping and treatment.

scholarly journals Externalizing and internalizing symptoms and coping strategies in young victims of abuse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Moreno-Manso ◽  
Mª. Elena García-Baamonde ◽  
Eloísa Guerrero-Barona ◽  
Mª. José Godoy-Merino ◽  
Mónica Guerrero-Molina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Externalizing Symptoms ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Symptoms

AbstractThis research analyses the internalizing and externalizing symptoms and the coping strategies of young victims of abuse. These young people are in residential care under protective measures due to abuse. The participants were 61 youths (32 male and 29 female) between 12 and 17 years of age. Different works of research stress the need for an early identification of the psychopathological symptomatology that these adolescents may present in order to provide an adequate psycho-educational intervention. The relationship between the adolescents’ psychopathological symptomatology and the coping strategies and styles they use to resolve problems is studied. It is also analyzed whether internalizing and externalizing problems predict the style and coping strategies of adolescents. Two tests were used: 1. Child and Adolescent Evaluation System (SENA); 2. Adolescent Coping Scales (ACS). The results indicate that young victims of abuse have internalizing and externalizing symptoms. These adolescents are characterized by an unproductive coping style, as well as by the use of coping strategies that are not very functional and ineffective for resolving conflicts. The psychopathological symptomatology is related to and predicts an unproductive coping style, badly adapted to solving daily problems (worrying, blaming oneself, not coping, ignoring the problem, or keeping it to oneself). This research has allowed us to identify the presence of several areas of vulnerability in these young persons which could be playing an important role in their psychosocial maladjustment. The research suggests the design of intervention strategies, for both groups and individuals, aimed at mitigating and modifying the sources of the problems in victims of child abuse.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL STRESSORS AND COPING STRATEGIES IN NURSING TECHNICIANS

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra de Souza Pereira ◽  
Carla Araujo Bastos Teixeira ◽  
Emilene Reisdorfer ◽  
Mariana Verderoce Vieira ◽  
Edilaine Cristina da Silva Gherardi-Donato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Occupational Stressors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT This is a quantitative, descriptive and exploratory research, with cross-sectional design that investigated the stressors experienced by nursing technicians working in general hospital and identified the coping strategies most used by them. The sample contained 310 participants. A sociodemographic questionnaire and the Ways of Coping Scale were used. For the analysis we used descriptive statistics and calculated the Cronbach's alpha. 60% of professionals used the strategies focused on the problem; 57.4% attributed their stress to working conditions, 26.8% to relationships in the workplace, 5.5% to the lack of reward at work and only 0.6% to problems personal. We conclude that strategies focused on the problems were the most used, indicating an approximation of the stressor in order to fix it. The identified stressors indicate the need for planning, stimulating and recognizing nursing professionals.

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