dc.contributor.author | Skirbekk, Helge | |
dc.contributor.author | Korsvold, Live | |
dc.contributor.author | Finset, Arnstein | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-22T15:00:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-22T15:00:10Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-12-06T12:18:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Patient Education and Counseling. 2017. | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 0738-3991 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2486579 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: To explore what peer supporters, patients and their relatives want and gain from peer support in cancer care.
Methods: Focus group interviews with peer supporters, and in-depth interviews with peer supporters, patients and relatives (N=38) and observations of daily activities in a Vardesenter (“Cairn Centre”).
Results: Peer supporters helped cancer patients and relatives with coping in and outside the hospital in several ways: (1) conveying hope and providing ways to cope in situations where despair would often be prevalent, thus protecting against unhealthy stress; (2) being someone who had had the same experiences of disease and treatment, and thus providing a framework for positive social comparisons; and (3) to be an important supplement to family and health care providers. To be working as a peer supporter was also found to be positive and important for the peer supporters themselves.
Conclusion: The peer support program represented a valuable supplement to informal support from family and friends and healthcare providers, and gave the peer supporters a new role as “professionally unprofessional”.
Practice implications: Organised peer support represents a feasible intervention to promote coping for cancer survivors. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399117306365 | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.subject | peer support | nb_NO |
dc.subject | cancer care | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Norway | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Vardesenter | nb_NO |
dc.subject | Cairn Centre | nb_NO |
dc.title | To support and to be supported. A qualitative study of peer support centres in cancer care in Norway | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Patient Education and Counseling | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.pec.2017.11.013 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1523483 | |
cristin.unitcode | 209,98,60,2 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for Økonomifag | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |