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                                                                <journal-id>josc</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Selçuk İletişim</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2148-2942</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Selcuk University</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18094/josc.1805951</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Communication and Media Studies (Other)</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>İletişim ve Medya Çalışmaları (Diğer)</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Social Support in Health Communication: Communication Between Cancer Patients and Their Relatives</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Sağlık İletişiminde Sosyal Destek: Kanser Hastaları ve Hasta Yakınlarının İletişimi</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3950-8744</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Sarıtaş</surname>
                                    <given-names>Ayşe</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>ESKİŞEHİR OSMANGAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260415">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>15</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
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                                        <volume>19</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>456</fpage>
                                        <lpage>485</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20251024">
                        <day>10</day>
                        <month>24</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260212">
                        <day>02</day>
                        <month>12</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1999, Journal of Selcuk Communication</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of Selcuk Communication</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Cancer is an increasingly prevalent health problem that affects many people (either as patients or their relatives). Cancer patients face challenges not only with treatment and coping with the disease, but also with communicating with their relatives. Therefore, how to communicate with cancer patients and understanding their expectations are important factors influencing the disease process. The study grounded in social support theory and it was aimed to understand the problems, feelings, expectations of cancer patients in their communication with primary social support groups in the context of health communication. A review of the literature reveals, it was observed that the majority of studies were about the patient-physician relationship and the relatives of cancer patients or caregivers of cancer patients. However, cancer affects the patient more than anyone else in the process of diagnosis, treatment and recovery. It is thought that it is more important to reveal what the patients who faces death feels, what their thinks, how words and behaviors affect them, and what their expectations are from the communication with the patient&#039;s relatives. In this context, semi-structured interviews were conducted using interview techniques with cancer patients who had been diagnosed with cancer and were either still undergoing treatment or had completed their treatment. The interview data were analyzed using content analysis and divided into categories-codes to obtain an in-depth insight. According to the research, it can be stated that cancer patients need to empathetic communication with their relatives and require emotional and instrumental support from their relatives.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Kanser, birçok insanı etkileyen (hasta veya hasta yakını olarak) giderek yaygınlaşan bir sağlık sorunudur. Kanser hastaları tedavinin zorluğu ve hastalıkla mücadelenin yanında hasta yakınlarıyla iletişim kurarken de mücadele etmek durumdadır. Bu nedenle kanser hastalarıyla nasıl iletişim kurulacağı ve kanser hastalarının beklentilerini anlamak hastalık sürecini etkileyen önemli faktörlerden biri olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır. Sosyal destek teorisine dayandırılan bu çalışmada sağlık iletişimi bağlamında kanser hastalarının birincil sosyal destek gruplarıyla iletişiminde yaşadıkları sorunları, hissettikleri duygularını, beklentilerini anlamaya çalışmak amaçlanmıştır. Literatür tarandığında çoğunlukla hasta doktor ilişkisi ve kanser hastalarının yakınları ya da kanser hastalarına bakım verenlerle ilgili yapılan çalışmaların ağırlıklı olduğu gözlenmiştir. Hâlbuki kanser teşhis, tedavi ve iyileşme sürecinde herkesten çok bizzat hastanın kendisini etkilemektedir. Ölümle yüz yüze gelen hastaların ne hissettiği, ne düşündüğü, sözlerin ve davranışların onu nasıl etkilediği, hasta yakınlarıyla kurdukları iletişimden beklentilerinin ne olduğunu ortaya koymanın daha önemli olduğu düşünülmektedir. Bu bağlamda kanser tanısı almış halen tedavisi devam eden ya da tedavisi bitmiş kişilerle yüz yüze görüşme tekniklerinden yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme yapılmıştır. Görüşme verileri içerik analizi yöntemiyle analiz edilerek temalara ve alt temalara ayrılarak derinlemesine bir iç görü elde edilmiştir. Araştırmaya göre kanser hastalarının yakınlarıyla empatiyle iletişim kurmaya ve yakınlarından duygusal ve araçsal destek konusunda yardım almaya ihtiyaç duydukları söylenebilir.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
                                                            <kwd-group>
                                                    <kwd>Health Communication</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Social Support Theory</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Social Support Communication</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Cancer</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Cancer Patients</kwd>
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                                                                            <kwd-group xml:lang="tr">
                                                    <kwd>Sağlık İletişimi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Sosyal Destek Teorisi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Sosyal Destek İletişimi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Kanser</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Kanser Hastaları</kwd>
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