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dc.contributor.authorSkirbekk, Helge
dc.contributor.authorKorsvold, Live
dc.contributor.authorFinset, Arnstein
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-22T15:00:10Z
dc.date.available2018-02-22T15:00:10Z
dc.date.created2017-12-06T12:18:04Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationPatient Education and Counseling. 2017.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0738-3991
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2486579
dc.description.abstractObjective: 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.isoengnb_NO
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399117306365
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectpeer supportnb_NO
dc.subjectcancer carenb_NO
dc.subjectNorwaynb_NO
dc.subjectVardesenternb_NO
dc.subjectCairn Centrenb_NO
dc.titleTo support and to be supported. A qualitative study of peer support centres in cancer care in Norwaynb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.journalPatient Education and Counselingnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pec.2017.11.013
dc.identifier.cristin1523483
cristin.unitcode209,98,60,2
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for Økonomifag
cristin.ispublishedtrue
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