The Health Sciences Department, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2011 May;20(3):337-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2009.01154.x.
This paper describes a psycho-educational multi-family discussion group intervention for cancer patients and their families (proFamilies) which was implemented and evaluated at the IPOFG - CROC (Portuguese Cancer Institute, Regional Centre of Coimbra). It is a brief and highly structured programme which involves educational and support components and is based on multi-family discussion groups, including patients and non-patient family members. Five groups were established, involving 19 families, and a total of 57 people. The paper focuses on the practical aspects of the intervention, its development and its evaluation. Our results suggest that the programme responds to the patients' and their families' needs and that participation in proFamilies prevents an increase in the patient's level of psycho-social maladjustment, promotes an adequate level of family cohesion and diminishes the perceived stress of patients and family members.
本文描述了一种针对癌症患者及其家属的心理教育多家庭讨论小组干预措施（proFamilies），该措施在 IPOFG-CROC（葡萄牙癌症研究所，科英布拉区域中心）实施并进行了评估。这是一个简短而高度结构化的项目，包含教育和支持内容，基于多家庭讨论小组，包括患者和非患者家庭成员。共成立了 5 个小组，涉及 19 个家庭，共 57 人。本文重点介绍了干预措施的实际方面、其发展和评估。我们的结果表明，该项目满足了患者及其家属的需求，并且参与 proFamilies 可防止患者心理社会适应不良程度的增加，促进了家庭凝聚力的适当水平，并减轻了患者和家庭成员的感知压力。
