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Learning as an empowerment process in breast cancer self-help groups
Ingun Stang1, Maurice B Mittelmark
1Faculty of Health Sciences, Vestfold University College, Tonsberg, Norway. is@hive.no
Journal of Clinical Nursing
|August 6, 2008
Summary
Self-help groups for breast cancer recovery foster empowerment through learning and new perspectives. Participants strongly recommend these professionally guided groups for enhancing the recovery process.
Area of Science:
- Oncology
- Psychology
- Sociology
Background:
- Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment can lead to feelings of powerlessness.
- Self-help groups theoretically promote empowerment by enhancing participants' sense of control.
- Professional guidance can ensure empowerment is explicitly addressed in self-help interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To promote and examine empowerment processes in women recovering from breast cancer.
- To investigate the role of self-help groups in fostering empowerment.
- To assess the impact of professional guidance on empowerment within these groups.
Main Methods:
- Intervention study design utilizing professionally led self-help groups.
- Three sequentially run groups, meeting weekly for approximately four months.
- Data collected through focus group interviews with 18 participants and observational data.
Main Results:
- Learning emerged as a key component of empowerment in self-help groups.
- The learning component included consciousness-raising, knowledge acquisition, shared experiences, and new life perspectives.
- Participants found self-help groups focusing on empowerment to be valuable for recovery.
Conclusions:
- Self-help groups focusing on empowerment significantly contribute to breast cancer recovery.
- Participants strongly recommended these empowerment-focused self-help groups.
- Professionally facilitated, explicit focus on empowerment is recommended for all self-help programs.
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