Examination of couples' attachment security in relation to depression and hopelessness in maritally distressed patients facing end-stage cancer and their spouse caregivers: a buffer or facilitator of psychosocial distress?
Marital distress may be amplified within insecure attachment bonds, especially among avoidant male patients and their female caregivers, which may influence caregiving/care-receiving. We offer unique, preliminary support for identifying couples at risk to help reduce suffering and complicated bereavement in the terminal cancer population. Further research that include larger studies, are needed to determine relationships among attachment and psychosocial outcomes.
Based on substantial favourable in vitro effects of vitamin D3 in endometriosis-related features of human endometriotic stromal cells, further investigations on therapeutic potential of this hormone in endometriosis are warranted.