Nucare, a coping skills training intervention for oncology patients and families: participants' motivations and expectations.

This study looks at the relationship between intention, self-efficacy, and beliefs as components of readiness to learn in a population dealing with a cancer diagnosis who attended the Nucare program, a coping skills training intervention. The subjects completed a short questionnaire and/or participated in a focus group as part of the intervention. We found a positive relationship between participants finding the intervention useful and their levels of self-efficacy and beliefs in their ability to change their coping strategies. Understanding that patients believe that coping is important to their well-being helps nurses plan interventions to teach and promote the use of coping skills to patients and families. Nucare may be selected as a useful guide to practice.