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  • Palliative Care
  • Psychosocial Oncology
  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Compassion is a vital relational response to patient suffering, central to palliative care.
  • Existing research often lacks patient perspectives on compassion.
  • Understanding compassionate presence requires exploring both patient and provider experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore compassionate presence, its benefits, and challenges in advanced cancer care.
  • To investigate patient and provider motivations for offering and receiving compassion.
  • To incorporate patient perspectives into research on compassionate care.

Main Methods:

  • Mixed-method exploratory study at a Swiss cancer center.
  • Interviews with 50 advanced cancer patients and 12 multidisciplinary professionals (providers).
  • Data collection on positive/burdensome effects, patient characteristics, and provider motivations.

Main Results:

  • High impact of compassionate presence reported by 98-100% of patients and providers.
  • Enhanced connectedness observed in patient-provider relationships (76%) and personal growth.
  • Significant mental-spiritual changes and burdensome effects (ambivalences) noted.

Conclusions:

  • Compassionate presence is essential and impactful during existential crises and end-of-life care.
  • The study highlights the profound effects of compassion on both patients and providers.
  • Further research should integrate patient and provider experiences to understand compassion's role.