{"id":20187,"date":"2019-03-26T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=20187"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:27:19","slug":"acceptance-and-identity-change-carers-experiences-in-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/acceptance-and-identity-change-carers-experiences-in-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance and identity change… carers’ experiences in ME\/CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acceptance and identity change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of carers’ experiences in myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome<\/a>, by Sarah Catchpole, Gulcan Garip, in Journal of Health Psychology, March 21, 2019<\/h3>\n

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Research abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Care<\/a>Myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating condition and many people rely heavily on family carers. This study explored the caring experiences of seven family carers. Four themes were established: relations with others, role and identity changes, coping with change and uncertainty, and information and support seeking.<\/p>\n

Caring disrupted multiple areas of carers’ lives, including their identities and relationships. Scepticism from others about myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome was particularly distressing.<\/p>\n

Acceptance was important for coping and helped some carers achieve positive growth within spousal relationships. Improving support and advice for carers and acknowledging their caring burden could improve their well-being.<\/p>\n

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Acceptance and identity change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of carers’ experiences in myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome, by Sarah Catchpole, Gulcan Garip, in Journal of Health Psychology, March 21, 2019   Research abstract: Myalgic encephalopathy\/chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating condition … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2954,662,4921,4920],"class_list":["post-20187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-acceptance","tag-caring","tag-gulcan-garip","tag-sarah-catchpole"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-5fB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20263,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions\/20263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}