Fostering coping by adolescents with newly diagnosed cancer.
OBJECTIVE
To review a research program about adolescents' coping with life-threatening illness and nurses' role in fostering the adolescents' coping efforts.


METHODS
Research studies, review articles, and book chapters.


CONCLUSIONS
Adolescents who have cancer are at risk of negative health outcomes. Promoting positive coping during the developmental period of adolescence helps adolescents to assume greater responsibility for their health actions.


CONCLUSIONS
Certain behaviors initiated by health care providers on hopefulness in adolescents assists the ill adolescents in articulating their hopes and realising or redefining those hopes.
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St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D015399:Nursing Research; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012944:Social Support