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Cancer and the family: strategies to assist spouses
L L Northouse1, H Peters-Golden
1College of Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.
Seminars in Oncology Nursing
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
Research that has been conducted with spouses of cancer patients documents the nature of their stress, the duration of their stress, and the concerns that they confront over the course of the illness. A variety of intervention strategies have been used to assist spouses in dealing with the stressful effects of cancer. Two major categories of intervention strategies are providing information and offering support.