Biography
Prof. Qiuping LI
Prof. Qiuping LI
Jiangnan University, China
Title: The positive aspects of cancer patients and their family caregivers
Abstract: 
While there is a vast body of studies exploring the negative aspects of cancer patients and their family caregivers’, there have also been reports on the positive aspects in the context of coping with cancer and its treatment. The objective of this report was to summarize and appraise the positive aspects in dyads of cancer patients and their family caregivers, and to identify directions for future research. Contents would cover the following three sections: (1) the postitive aspects of spousal caregivers for cancer patients: a systematic review showed that spousal caregivers for cancer patients experienced various positive aspects of caregiving, such as an enhanced relationship with the care-receiver, the feeling of being rewarded, a sense of personal growth, and a perception of personal satisfaction. Daily enrichment events and self-efficacy on the part of the caregivers were identified as the determining factors in the positive aspects of caregiving. (2) psychometric properties of the 17-item benefit finding scale (BFS) in Chinese cancer patients and their family caregivers: dimensionality analysis confirmed a three-dimensional structure validity. The extracted three factors were personal growth, improved relationships, and acceptance. The overall and three subscales of BFS in both cancer patients and family caregivers had good internal consistency, with all of the Cronbach's a ≥0.819. (3)factors moderating the mutual impact of benefit finding between Chinese patients with cancer and their family caregivers: cancer patients and family caregivers experienced similar moderate to high benefit finding ranging from 65% to 81%, with the exception of acceptance, in that cancer patients had higher levels of acceptance than did family caregivers (P<0.05). Various factors modifying the benefit finding relationships between cancer patients and their family caregivers were identified, including dyads’ gender, marital status, education level, employment status, level of being informed about the disease, and cancer type and treatment, anxiety, depression, and self-efficacy. Healthcare professionals need to encourage the cancer patient-caregiver dyads to share their experience and improve benefit finding together; and to develop a dyadic-based intervention program to help enhancing dyads benefit finding.

Keywords: cancer; oncology; positive aspects; benefit finding; family caregivers, cancer patient-family caregiver dyads
Biography: 
Li Qiuping, Ph.D (in nursing science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and M.D (in epidemiology and health statistics from the Fourth Military Medical University), professor, supervisor in master degree. Her research interests comprise nursing education, digestive system diseases and cancer care. The major research contents mainly focus on the development and evaluation of supportive psychological intervention model for cancer patients and their family caregivers. She has accomplished 11 research projects. More than 100 articles were published by the first author or corresponding author, among which 26 were included in SCI journals. She has edited 16 textbooks and 5 Monographs, and secured research funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) as principal investigator.