In the last decade, clinicians have started to shift from an individualistic perspective of the patient towards family-centred models of care, due to the increasing evidence from research and clinical practice of the crucial role of significant others in determining the patient's adjustment to cancer disease and management. eHealth tools can be considered a means to compensate the services gap and support outpatient care flows. Within the works of the European H2020 iManageCancer project, a review of the literature in the field of family resilience was conducted, in order to determine how to monitor the patient and his/her family's resilience through an eHealth platform. An analysis of existing family resilience questionnaires suggested that no measure was appropriate for cancer patients and their families. For this reason, a new family resilience questionnaire (named FaRe) was developed to screen the patient's and caregiver's psycho-emotional resources. Composed of 24 items, it is divided into four subscales: Communication and Cohesion, Perceived Family Coping, Religiousness and Spirituality, and Perceived Social Support. Embedded in the iManageCancer eHealth platform, it allows users and clinicians to monitor the patient's and the caregivers' resilience throughout the cancer trajectory

Development of an ehealth tool for cancer patients: Monitoring psycho-emotional aspects with the family resilience (fare) questionnaire / F. Faccio, C. Renzi, C. Crico, E. Kazantzaki, H. Kondylakis, L. Koumakis, K. Marias, G. Pravettoni. - In: ECANCERMEDICALSCIENCE. - ISSN 1754-6605. - 12(2018 Jul 11), pp. 852.1-852.8. [10.3332/ecancer.2018.852]

Development of an ehealth tool for cancer patients: Monitoring psycho-emotional aspects with the family resilience (fare) questionnaire

F. Faccio
Primo
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C. Crico;G. Pravettoni
Ultimo
2018

Abstract

In the last decade, clinicians have started to shift from an individualistic perspective of the patient towards family-centred models of care, due to the increasing evidence from research and clinical practice of the crucial role of significant others in determining the patient's adjustment to cancer disease and management. eHealth tools can be considered a means to compensate the services gap and support outpatient care flows. Within the works of the European H2020 iManageCancer project, a review of the literature in the field of family resilience was conducted, in order to determine how to monitor the patient and his/her family's resilience through an eHealth platform. An analysis of existing family resilience questionnaires suggested that no measure was appropriate for cancer patients and their families. For this reason, a new family resilience questionnaire (named FaRe) was developed to screen the patient's and caregiver's psycho-emotional resources. Composed of 24 items, it is divided into four subscales: Communication and Cohesion, Perceived Family Coping, Religiousness and Spirituality, and Perceived Social Support. Embedded in the iManageCancer eHealth platform, it allows users and clinicians to monitor the patient's and the caregivers' resilience throughout the cancer trajectory
Family health, Health services, Neoplasms, Psychological, Resilience,Telemedicine
Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia Generale
11-lug-2018
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