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    This document contains a 21-item cancer coping questionnaire that assesses how patients have coped with cancer-related stress over the last week. The questionnaire asks patients to rate how often they engaged in various coping strategies like making plans, distracting themselves, practicing relaxation, and communicating with partners. Respondents are asked to indicate if they used each strategy very often, often, sometimes, or not at all as they coped with their cancer illness in the previous week.

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    Cancer Coping Questionnaire

    (21-item version)
    Name.............................. Hospital number.........................
    People have many ways of coping with the stress that cancer puts them under.
    How stressful has the last week been for you?

    Very stressful Moderately stressful Slightly stressful Not at all stressful


    F F F F

    Have you worried about cancer in the last week?

    Most of the time A lot of the time Some of the time None of the time
    F F F F

    On the following pages there is a list of different methods of coping. Think


    about how you have coped with your illness in the last week, and circle how
    often you have used each method described. No one uses all the ways of coping
    described, but everyone uses some of them.
    In the last week did you:

    Very often Often Sometimes Not at all


    1. Make definite plans for the future? 4 3 2 1

    2. Try breathing slowly and deeply to 4 3 2 1


    cope with anxiety?

    3. Distract yourself from worrying 4 3 2 1


    thoughts?

    4. Remind yourself that aches and pains 4 3 2 1


    could be caused by things other than
    the cancer spreading?

    5. Make a list of priorities for the week 4 3 2 1


    so that you got important things
    done?

    6. Stand back to get the seriousness of 4 3 2 1


    your illness into proportion?

    Stirling Moorey, Steven Greer


    Oxford Guide to CBT for People with Cancer: Appendices. Copyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press

    Oxford Clinical Psychology | Oxford University Press


    Very often Often Sometimes Not at all
    7. Look for what strengths you have to 4 3 2 1
    cope with cancer?

    8. Cope with frustration by channelling 4 3 2 1


    it into other things (e.g. physical
    activity like housework or gardening)?

    9. Remind yourself of what things you 4 3 2 1


    still have in life despite cancer?

    10. Organize your day so that you got 4 3 2 1


    the most out of it, despite cancer?

    11. Practise relaxation? 4 3 2 1

    12. Answer back worrying thoughts? 4 3 2 1

    13. Plan your day so that you got on with 4 3 2 1


    some activities unrelated to cancer?

    14. Make sure you thought of some of 4 3 2 1


    the positive aspects of your life?

    If you are in a close relationship, think of how you and your partner have
    coped in the last week.
    In the last week did you:

    Very often Often Sometimes Not at all


    15. Involve your partner in an activity 4 3 2 1
    that helped you cope with cancer?

    16. Talk with your partner about the 4 3 2 1


    impact of cancer on your lives?

    17. Ask your partner what (s)he was 4 3 2 1


    thinking, rather than making
    assumptions?

    18. Try to see cancer as a challenge that 4 3 2 1


    you and your partner have to face
    together?

    19. Discuss how your partner could help 4 3 2 1


    support you?

    20. Talk to your partner about how you 4 3 2 1


    could organize things to take some
    pressure off you (e.g. changing who
    does household chores)?

    21. Think of how cancer had brought 4 3 2 1


    you and your partner closer
    together?

    Stirling Moorey, Steven Greer


    Oxford Guide to CBT for People with Cancer: Appendices. Copyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press

    Oxford Clinical Psychology | Oxford University Press

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