Navigating the emotional landscape: exploring caregivers’ journey alongside breast cancer survivors with chronic pain
C Filipponi, M Masiero, M Chichua, S Traversoni, G Pravettoni · 2024
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Description
Filipponi and co-authors listen to the feelings of people who care for breast cancer survivors in chronic pain. Caregiving is central to cancer care yet often unseen. The team ran three focus groups with informal caregivers. Their words were scored for emotion with a lexicon based on a classic wheel of feelings.
Heavy feelings dominated the talk. Sadness, fear, and disgust ran high, with remorse, despair, and shame close behind. The pandemic years deepened shame and a sense of frozen helplessness. Yet trust was the single most voiced note, and hope held steady. The authors call for support frames that tend caregivers' own emotional load.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | C Filipponi, M Masiero, M Chichua, S Traversoni, G Pravettoni |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |