ABSTRACT

Background and Objective

Reception of social support may foster adjustment in dyads facing cancer treatment. Still, understanding of the effects of received support in everyday life of patient-caregiver dyads remains limited. This study investigated whether the positive effect of daily received social support depends on daily stress levels and whether the effect differs by perspective (recipient vs. provider) in dyads undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).

Design and Methods

The sample comprised 200 patient-caregiver dyads after HCT. The participants completed measures of daily stress levels, received and provided social support as well as affect for 28 consecutive days.

Results

Regardless of daily stress levels, the caregivers reported better affect on days when they noticed more received support (recipient perspective), whereas the patients reported worse affect on days when they noticed more received support (recipient perspective) and/or when their caregivers reported higher provided support (provider perspective).

Conclusion

The effects of daily received support were not related to the levels of daily stress in patient-caregiver dyads after HCT. Also, the effects varied by role (benefits in the caregivers vs. harm in the patients) and perspective (similarities in the patients vs. differences in the caregivers).

中文翻译：

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造血细胞移植患者-护理人员的日常压力和社会支持

摘要

背景和目标

接受社会支持可能会促进面临癌症治疗的二人组进行调整。尽管如此，对患者-护理人员二人日常生活中接受支持的影响的了解仍然有限。这项研究调查了每天接受社会支持的积极影响是否取决于每天的压力水平，以及这种影响是否因接受造血细胞移植 (HCT) 的二人组的观点（接受者与提供者）而不同。

设计与方法

该样本包括 200 名 HCT 后的患者-护理人员二人组。参与者连续 28 天完成日常压力水平测量、接受和提供社会支持以及影响。

结果

无论日常压力水平如何，看护者在注意到更多支持（接受者角度）的日子里报告了更好的影响，而患者在注意到更多支持（接受者角度）和/或他们的看护者报告更高的日子里报告了更差的影响提供的支持（提供者的角度）。

结论

每日接受支持的影响与 HCT 后患者-护理人员的日常压力水平无关。此外，效果因角色（护理人员的利益与患者的伤害）和观点（患者的相似性与护理人员的差异）而异。