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Coping Among Married Couple with Cancer Survivor Partner

Authors
Erwin1, Sri Wahyuni1, Nurul Huda1, *
1Nursing Faculty, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: nurul.huda@lecturer.unri.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Nurul Huda
Available Online 19 April 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_22How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Couples; Coping; cancer
Abstract

Background: People with cancer can have many adverse psychological impacts from the diagnosis. However, when dealing with advanced cancer, not only patients experience stress, but stress is also experienced by the family particularly spouse.

Aim: The aim of this study is to describe coping in couple whose spouse has advanced cancer.

Methods: This study is conducted according to qualitative phenomenological design. Purposive sampling was used for recruiting patients and data collection was conducted by semi structure in depth interview with 5 spouses. Data were analysed using collaizi method.

Results: The age range of the couple is 28–45 years old. Three dominant items that emerged from interviews were spiritual growth, stronger relationship and reaching out new goal.

Conclusion: Couples used some coping strategy to support each other during the cancer journey that benefit to them. Hence, addressing appropriate couples program to increase their coping ability are needed Atlantis.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st Lawang Sewu International Symposium 2022 on Health Sciences (LSISHS 2022)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
19 April 2023
ISBN
978-94-6463-132-6
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_22How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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