Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

This episode features Prof. María Arantzamendi (Institute for Culture and Society, ATLANTES, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain). Coping is essential to manage the challenges that palliative care professionals face in their daily clinical work and most well-known explanations focus on emotion or problem-based coping. Many of the studies about coping tend to focus on its effect and consequences. The last review about coping in palliative1 care used a dichotomous approach for influential factors (risk or protective), professional and personal strategies. Coping can include a variety of strategies from proactive coping, self-care based coping, self-transforming coping and encountering deep professional meaning. Specific training, healthcare team, professional motivation and family were found to be sometimes protective and other times risk factors. Emotional burden and the systemic or administrative factors always appear as risk factors. Throughout a dynamic adaptation and learning process over t