ArticleBMC psychology2025
Mediating effect of dyadic coping between family function and meaning in life in patients with advanced lung cancer.
Article in BMC psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Family Bonds at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study of Meaning Reconstruction Through Intergenerational Relationships Among Older Adults With Advanced Lung Cancer.Psycho-oncology · 2026Article
- Dyadic Coping and Illness Uncertainty in Cancer Patient-Caregiver Dyads: Interactive Mechanisms, Heterogeneity, and Integrated Intervention Directions-A Narrative Review (2021-2025).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo explore the mediating effect of dyadic coping in the relationship between family functioning and meaning in life in patients with advanced lung cancer and to provide reference for developing intervention studies to improve meaning in life.
methodsFrom April to August 2023, 300 inpatients in the oncology department of a Shanghai tertiary hospital were selected by convenience sampling method. The general data questionnaire, Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI), Family Assessment Device (FAD) and Meaning in Life Scale for Advanced Cancer Patients (MiLs) were investigated. SPSS 26.0 software was used for correlation analysis, and PROCESS v3.5 model 4 was used to analyze moderating effects.
resultsThe three variables exhibit pairwise positive correlations. In the mediated effects model, the direct effect of family function on meaning in life was significant (95% CI 0.21, 0.52); the indirect effect of family function on meaning in life in patients with advanced lung cancer through DC was also significant (95% CI 0.64, 1.12).
conclusionFamily function has a direct effect on meaning in life, and an indirect effect via dyadic coping. The latter indicates that adapting the dyadic coping pattern could be used in care provision. Therefore, nursing staff and families can strengthen how family functioning enhances meaning in life by implementing a dyadic-coping-focused intervention program.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.