The Conversations About Cancer (CAC) Project: Assessing Feasibility and Audience Impacts From Viewing The Cancer Play

• Published in: Health communication Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 462 - 472
• Main Authors: Beach, Wayne A., Buller, Mary K., Dozier, David M., Buller, David B., Gutzmer, Kyle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Routledge 28.05.2014; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Attitude to Health; Cancer; Drama; Families & family life; Family - psychology; Feasibility; Focus Groups; Health Communication - methods; Hope; Humans; Interpersonal communication; Medical personnel; Medical professionals; Medical research; Neoplasms - psychology; Public health; Relatives; Social impact; Social Support

Basic communication research has identified a major social problem: communicating about cancer from diagnosis through death of a loved one. Over the past decade, an award-winning investigation into how family members talk through cancer on the telephone, based on a corpus of 61 phone calls over a pe...