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Alternative therapies as control behaviours used by cancer patients
Author(s) -
Montbriand Muriel J.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22040646.x
Subject(s) - sociocultural evolution , control (management) , cancer , health care , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , sociology , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , anthropology , law
Alternative health care practices are a way in which cancer patients can be in control of their illness situation. This assumption is investigated through control theory. While the socio‐cultural schemas of North American patients endorse control of illness, the stress of the cancer experience dismisses the advantage of control behaviours. Analysis also suggests that patients find ways to escape from the freedom of being in control of their health situation. This post‐analysis of a recent study uncovers major ambiguities concerning the control behaviours of cancer patients.