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21501265

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-6-7
pubmed:abstractText
Families contribute to maintaining the well-being of people with cancer through providing emotional and practical support, frequently at significant cost to their own well-being, and often with little help from healthcare professionals. This paper describes nurses' experience of providing an innovative service to support the families of people with lung cancer. A process of group reflection by the three nurses involved in delivering the intervention has produced an autoethnographic account of taking part in this study. Three main themes relating to the nature and process of delivering the intervention were identified: 'meeting diverse need', 'differing models of delivery' and 'dilemma and emotion'. Supporting family members of patients with lung cancer can be immensely rewarding for nurses and potentially bring significant benefit. However, this kind of work can also be demanding in terms of time and emotional cost. These findings demonstrate the value of incorporating process evaluation in feasibility studies for articulating, refining and developing complex interventions. Determining the applicability and utility of the intervention for other practice settings requires further evaluation.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1365-2354
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
436-44
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Nurses' experience of delivering a supportive intervention for family members of patients with lung cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK. hilaryplant@blueyonder.co.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't