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IN THE NEWS
Helping smokers butt out Ex-Degrassi star hopes online photo project will help young adults find motivation to quit By Sheryl Ubelacker, Canadian Press, Sept. 17, 2011. Link. WHO on Tobacco
Sept. 6. 2011 * Anti-tobacco programs underfunded, WHO says. By Lauren Vogel, Canadian Medical Association Journal. More. Tobacco laws
Aug. 25, 2011 * World’s First Plain Tobacco Packaging Laws Passed by Australian Parliament, by Gemma Daley and Joe Schneider, Bloomberg.com |
Lung Cancer
Help for Smokers' Help Line
Canadian Health Reference Guide, June 26, 2012 - A French and English “Canadian phone number” will start appearing on cigarette packages over the coming months and will automatically connect New Brunswick callers to the province’s Smokers' Helpline service. To help offset costs associated with an anticipated increase in the number of calls to the toll-free line, the federal government has provided an additional $100,000 to New Brunswick for the next four years. In New Brunswick, this service is delivered in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society. Source .......................................
Feeling good, adapting well
Perceived health in lung cancer patients: the role of positive and negative affect. "Results of our secondary analysis indicate that trait negative affect was significantly associated with poor physical and social functioning, greater role limitations due to emotional problems, greater bodily pain, and poor general health. Positive affect was significantly associated with adaptive social functioning, fewer emotion-based role limitations, and less severe bodily pain. In a full model, positive affect was significantly associated with greater levels of social functioning and general health, over and above the effects of negative affect." Quality of Life Research, 2011 May 25.
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Nurses supporting families
Nurses' experience of delivering a supportive intervention for family members of patients with lung cancer.
"Three main themes relating to the nature and process of delivering the intervention were identified: 'meeting diverse need', 'differing models of delivery' and 'dilemma and emotion'....findings demonstrate the value of incorporating process evaluation in feasibility studies for articulating, refining and developing complex interventions. Determining the applicability and utility of the intervention for other practice settings requires further evaluation." European Journal of Cancer Care (Engl). 2011 Apr 19 ...................................................
The prepared patient
A longitudinal qualitative analysis of the factors that influence patient distress within the lung cancer population.
"The complexity of the issues involved in the development of symptom distress needs to be recognised by health care professionals in this poor prognosis group of patients. Better patient preparation about symptoms may alleviate some of the symptom distress in lung cancer patients." ...............................................
Quitting after surgery
The effect of smoking cessation on quality of life after lung cancer surgery,
"Smoking cessation is beneficial at any time point to lung cancer surgery and current smoking at the time of surgery is associated with a poor postoperative QoL." European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2011 Apr 16. .....................................................
Recruiting challenges
Proactive recruitment of cancer patients' social networks into a smoking cessation trial.
"Proactive recruitment of smokers in the social networks of lung cancer patients is challenging. In this study, the majority of family members and friends declined to participate. Enlisting immediate female family members and friends, who live close to the patient as agents to proactively recruit other network members into smoking cessation trials could be used to extend reach of cessation interventions to patients' social networks. Moreover, further consideration should be given to the appropriate timing of approaching network smokers to consider cessation." Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2011 Jul;32(4):498-504. Epub 2011 Mar 5. .................................................
YouTube Smoke
A team of researchers in the US has studied smoking-cessation videos on
YouTube to determine how many are based on evidence-based practices
(EBP). Roughly half of the relevant videos included EBPs, with
behavioural strategies appearing in 38% of these videos. Websites were
mentioned in 35%, 30% covered medication, and 27% mentioned quitlines,
which are toll-free telephone support lines for people trying to quit
smoking. Hypnosis was the most common non-EBP practice covered in the
videos. The authors suggest that YouTube visitors are more likely to
find EBP videos if health professionals uploading videos tag them as
"quit smoking," "stop smoking," and "smoking cessation." Videos that
counter non-EBPs would be useful as well, say the researchers. (Click here to go to the abstract.) The findings are timely given recent research
out of New Zealand that highlights the popularity of pro-smoking videos
on YouTube. A music video promoting smoking, for instance, had been
viewed more than two millions times at the time of the study.
Source: CPOP Talk, Winter 2011 |
Associations Providing Psychosocial Support & Knowledge
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Research Headlines
Symptoms of Patients With Lung Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy and Coping Strategies
Cancer Nursing. 2011 Mar 2 (Study undertaken in Turkey) |
