Emotional disclosure as a form of therapeutic intervention on health-related outcomes of people with progressive, advanced, chronic diseases

一种混合方法的博士学位：1)回顾进展性、进展性、慢性病患者及其家庭照顾者对表达写作的可接受性和有效性的证据，并对提出的解释表达写作如何产生健康益处的理论框架进行审查。2)利用这种理解，与患者、家庭照顾者以及健康和社会专业人员一起制定为进展性晚期慢性病患者量身定做的表达写作干预，以在疼痛、睡眠、抑郁、焦虑等方面产生有益的改善。3)开展探索性研究，测试进展期慢性病患者及其家庭照顾者使用表现性写作的可行性和可接受性；4)探索患者和家庭照顾者完成表现性写作干预的经验

A mixed-methods PhD to:1) review the evidence on the acceptability and efficacy of expressive writing in people with progressive, advanced, chronic diseases and their family carers and to undertake a review of the theoretical frameworks proposed to explain how expressive writing may produce health benefits2) use this understanding to develop with patients, family carers and health and social professionals an expressive writing intervention tailored for people with progressive advanced chronic diseases to produce beneficial improvements in pain, sleep, depression, anxiety, and stress and cause no adverse effect3) to undertake an exploratory study to test the feasibility and acceptability of expressive writing for people with progressive advance chronic diseases and their family carers4) to explore patients and family carers experiences of completing an expressive writing intervention