Abstract
It is well documented that the diagnosis of cancer affects the wellbeing of the whole family adding overwhelming stresses and uncertainties. As such, family education and enhancement of resilience is an important factor that should be promoted and facilitated in a holistic manner for addressing a severe and chronic condition such as cancer. In this paper, we review the notion of resilience in the literature identifying three tools that try to support it. Then we focus in the cancer domain and we describe a tool implemented to this direction. To our knowledge, this is the first time such a tool is used to complete patient profile with family resilience information, eventually leading to patient and family engagement and empowerment.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | EMBEC and NBC 2017 - Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference EMBEC 2017 and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, NBC 2017 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 29-32 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 65 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789811051210 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
Event | Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, EMBEC 2017 and Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, NBC 2107 - Tampere, Finland Duration: Jun 11 2017 → Jun 15 2017 |
Conference
Conference | Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, EMBEC 2017 and Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, NBC 2107 |
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Country | Finland |
City | Tampere |
Period | 6/11/17 → 6/15/17 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Bioengineering
- Biomedical Engineering