 Cancer care--A stress for health professionalsNicole Delvaux, Darius Razavi and Christine Farvacques Social Science & Medicine, 1988, vol. 27, issue 2, 159-166 Abstract: Literature related to health care professionals dealing with stress of cancer care is still in its infancy. The authors distinguish papers of general interest (the most frequent), papers identifying stressors, and papers about stress consequences. Most of them recognize death of the patients as a major stressor for health care professionals. There are also additional stressors specific to health care and work. Consequences of stressors have another important dimension: working with cancer patients is often a chronic stress which may lead to the development of burnout and poor quality of care. Little also is actually known about how coping strategies and/or support are influencing adaptation and stress consequences. The authors suggest that an important effort should be made to evaluate stress, and its consequences on poor staff communication with cancer patients and their families. Training interventions aimed at a better quality of care should be designed and their usefulness investigated. The effectiveness of training for health care professionals dealing with cancer patients is reviewed. Keywords: review; stress; health; professionals; cancer (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:27:y:1988:i:2:p:159-166 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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