Abstract:
:Scholarship on couple communication about cancer employs variable conceptualizations of communication, and common measurement strategies make questionable assumptions about communication. This study provides a descriptive foundation for a multiple-topic, multidimensional approach to studying couple talk about cancer. Based on interviews with persons treated for cancer in the last 5 years and partners, we identified 16 topics and 5 dimensions of talk. "Talk about cancer" covers a broad range of issues. The frequency, openness, difficulty, and focus of talk vary considerably for different topics and can change over time or differ between partners. Disagreements were rare but highly salient, and satisfaction with talk tended to be high. These findings suggest we move away from abstract, general measures of couple communication and that we develop descriptive advice for couples, rather than simply prescribing "be open."
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Health Communjournal_title
Health communicationauthors
Goldsmith DJ,Miller GAdoi
10.1080/10410236.2012.717215subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-01-01 00:00:00pages
51-63issue
1eissn
1041-0236issn
1532-7027journal_volume
29pub_type
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