Experts of their own experience: adolescent and young adult cancer patients’ advice-giving as a coping mechanism
Soliciting AYA advice serves to identify informal coping mechanisms in response to life-stage-specific concerns. Future research is called to substantiate the utility of 'advice' as a single item tool for research and clinical questionnaires. Practice implications call for creating opportunities for AYAs to impart their advice to others (e.g. anonymous community message board) as a means of personal catharsis, altruistic service, and legitimizing AYAs as 'embodied' experts of their own experiences.
Authors
- Lindsey A. Herrel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-0784)
- Rashmi K Chugh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4633-6971)
- Daria Stelmak
- Molly B. Moravek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-4938)
- Emily Walling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-2971)
- Nina Francis‐Levin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-424X)
- Erin Ellman
- Chiu Yi Tan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6434-7749)
- Anao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-1113)
- Brad Zebrack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-1984)
- Nicholas T. Iannarino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1069-2173)
- Julianna Corrao
Institutions
- Scripps Health (US)
- Henry Ford Health System (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Michigan Medicine (US)
- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology (US)
- University of Michigan–Dearborn (US)
- University of Colorado Cancer Center (US)
- Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Communications In Healthcare
- Published
- 2024-12-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2024.2438446
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.11
Funders
- National Institutes of Health