Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Hope"
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The experience of hope for adults with cystic fibrosis
In this highly technical biomedical era, advances in diagnosis and aggressive treatments have altered the survival age for many chronically ill people. What is the meaning of hope to people who have lived beyond their ... -
Hope in the Elderly: Exploring the Relationship Between Psychosocial Developmental Residual and Hope
Hope has been postulated to be a motivational life force associated with psychosocial developmental residual from early stages of life (Erikson, 1963). This study explored the relationship between psychosocial developmental ... -
Hopeful adults with advanced stage cancer: nature, influences, focus, and patterns of hope over time
The diagnosis of terminal cancer begins one of the most complex and challenging individual experiences of human life that requires multiple coping responses, one of those being hope. There are limited knowledge and few ... -
Meaning-in-life, depression and suicide in older adults: A comparative survey study
This study compared meaning-in-life (MIL) and other related variables in two populations, those elderly who were and those who were not depressed. The model developed for this study assumed in older adults that spirituality, ... -
A qualitative study of hope and the environment of persons living with cancer
The purpose of this naturalistic study was to explore and describe the impact of factors from the internal and external, human and non-human environments on the hoping process utilized by persons living with cancer. Given ... -
Supporting hope in midlife cancer survivors: Intervention workshop
Problem: Cancer patients lack information and support needed to make the transition to survivorship. This problem was addressed by testing a psycho-educational group intervention, the Mid-Life Directions Workshop, for its ...