Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Roberts D, Calman L, Large P, et al. A revised model for coping with advanced cancer. Mapping concepts from a longitudinal qualitative study of patients and carers coping with advanced cancer onto Folkman and Greer's theoretical model of appraisal and coping. Psycho-Oncology. 2018;27:229–235. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4497 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pon.4497/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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T1 - A revised model for coping with advanced cancer. Mapping concepts from a longitudinal qualitative study of patients and carers coping with advanced cancer onto Folkman and Greer’s theoretical model of appraisal and coping
AU - Roberts, Diane
AU - Calman, Lynn
AU - Large, Paul
AU - Appleton, Lynda
AU - Grande, Gunn
AU - Lloyd-Williams, Mari
AU - Walshe, Catherine Elizabeth
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Roberts D, Calman L, Large P, et al. A revised model for coping with advanced cancer. Mapping concepts from a longitudinal qualitative study of patients and carers coping with advanced cancer onto Folkman and Greer's theoretical model of appraisal and coping. Psycho-Oncology. 2018;27:229–235. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4497 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pon.4497/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - ObjectiveTo explore whether the Folkman and Greer theoretical model of appraisal and coping reflects the processes used by people living with advanced cancer.MethodsInterview data from a longitudinal qualitative study with people with advanced (stage 3 or 4) cancer (n=26) were mapped onto the concepts of the Folkman and Greer theoretical model. Qualitative interviews conducted in home settings, 4-12 weeks apart (n=45) examined coping strategies, why people thought they were effective, and in what circumstances. Interviews were coded and analysed using techniques of constant comparison.ResultsMapping coping strategies clearly onto the problem- or emotion-focused elements of the model proved problematic. Fluctuating symptoms, deterioration over time and uncertain timescales in advanced cancer produce multiple events simultaneously or in quick succession. This demands not only coping with a single event but also frequent repositioning, often to an earlier point in the coping process. In addition, there is substantial ongoing potential for some degree of distress rather than purely ‘positive emotion' as the final stage in the process is death with several points of permanent loss of capability in the interim.ConclusionsThe Folkman and Greer theoretical model is helpful in deconstructing the discrete ‘problem-focused' or ‘emotion-focused' coping mechanisms participants describe but its formulation as a linear process with a single, positive, outcome is insufficiently flexible to capture the evolution of coping for people with advanced cancer.
AB - ObjectiveTo explore whether the Folkman and Greer theoretical model of appraisal and coping reflects the processes used by people living with advanced cancer.MethodsInterview data from a longitudinal qualitative study with people with advanced (stage 3 or 4) cancer (n=26) were mapped onto the concepts of the Folkman and Greer theoretical model. Qualitative interviews conducted in home settings, 4-12 weeks apart (n=45) examined coping strategies, why people thought they were effective, and in what circumstances. Interviews were coded and analysed using techniques of constant comparison.ResultsMapping coping strategies clearly onto the problem- or emotion-focused elements of the model proved problematic. Fluctuating symptoms, deterioration over time and uncertain timescales in advanced cancer produce multiple events simultaneously or in quick succession. This demands not only coping with a single event but also frequent repositioning, often to an earlier point in the coping process. In addition, there is substantial ongoing potential for some degree of distress rather than purely ‘positive emotion' as the final stage in the process is death with several points of permanent loss of capability in the interim.ConclusionsThe Folkman and Greer theoretical model is helpful in deconstructing the discrete ‘problem-focused' or ‘emotion-focused' coping mechanisms participants describe but its formulation as a linear process with a single, positive, outcome is insufficiently flexible to capture the evolution of coping for people with advanced cancer.
U2 - 10.1002/pon.4497
DO - 10.1002/pon.4497
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 229
EP - 235
JO - Psycho-Oncology
JF - Psycho-Oncology
SN - 1057-9249
IS - 1
ER -