What is Coping-Together?
Coping-Together is a self-management resource for patients with cancer and their caregivers. It includes a series of six booklets that aim to provide practical coping strategies for the day-to-day management of common challenges associated with cancer.
Feedback on the program
Especially for people who have never touched on communication issues, relationship issues, never even thought that deep breathing could help them […] to read something like this and go ‘oh gosh, wow, you know, you can do that!’Really, really helpful.
Health professionals say you need to relax, you need to communicate with your partner and you need to do this and you need to do that–but they do not tell you how. I think if you do have some strategies in there to explain that more, that is very beneficial.
Supported by
Collaborators
Sylvie Lambert
Nicole Culos-Reed
Janet Ellis
John Robinson
Andrew Matthew
Anne Katz
Marcela Hidalgo
Kimberley Thibodeau
Anita Mehta
Daniel Santa
Publications
Son T, Lambert S, Jakubowski A, DiCicco-Bloom B, Loiselle CG. Adaptation of Coping-Together - a self-directed coping skills intervention for patients and caregivers in an outpatient hematopoietic stem cell transplantation setting: a study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018:18(1):669.
Lambert SD, Girgas A, Turner J, Regan T, Candler H, Britton B, Chamber S, Lawsin C, Kayser K. "You need something like this to give you guidelines on what to do": patients' and partners' use and perceptions of a self-directed coping skills training resource. Support Care Cancer. 2013;21(12):345160.
Lambert SD, Girgis A, Turner J, McElduff P, Kayser K, Vallentine P. A pilot randomized controlled trial of the feasibility of a self-directed coping skills intervention for couples facing prostate cancer: rationale and design. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2012 Sep 26;10:119. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-119.
Lambert SD, McElduff P, Girgis A, Levesque JV, Regan TW, Turner J, Candler H, Mihalopoulos C, Shih STF, Kayser K, Chong P. A pilot, multisite, randomized controlled trial of a self-directed coping skills training intervention for couples facing prostate cancer: accrual, retention, and data collection issues. Support Care Cancer. 2016 Feb;24(2):711-722.
Lambert SD, Girgis A, McElduff P, Turner J, Levesque JV, Kayser K, Mihalopoulos C, Shih ST, Barker D. A parallel-group, randomised controlled trial of a multimedia, self-directed, coping skills training intervention for patients with cancer and their partners: design and rationale. BMJ Open. 2013 Jul 24;3(7):e003337.