Determinants and implications of cancer patients’ psychosocial needs

Ernstmann, Nicole; Neumann, Melanie; Ommen, Oliver; Galushko, Maren; Wirtz, Markus; Voltz, Raymond; Hallek, Michael; Pfaff, Holger

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“…Fifty enough support, with 58% of the support provided by family and friends, while 42% of the support came from the health-care team. Many studies have shown the need for the cancer patient to receive psychological support (Ernstmann et al, 2009;Goldzweig et al, 2010). In a German study, 18.9% of patients indicated an unmet need for psychosocial support and 9.5% of patients were actually using psychosocial services; that need was higher in female patients (Merckaert et al, 2010).…”

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Perception of Patients with Cancer towards Support Management Services and Use of Complementary Alternative Medicine - a Single Institution Hospital-Based Study in Saudi Arabia

Sait¹,

Anfinan²,

El-Deek³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Perception of Patients with Cancer towards Support Management Services and Use of Complementary Alternative Medicine - a Single Institution Hospital-Based Study in Saudi Arabia

Sait¹,

Anfinan²,

El-Deek³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Gender, emotional functioning (Ernstmann et al, 2009), age and time since diagnosis (Sanson-Fisher et al, 2000) are factors that earlier have been associated with enhanced psychosocial or supportive care needs for patients with cancer. However, factors or characteristics that may impact the need of supportive care within this patient group needs to be further explored.…”

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Patients' experiences of supportive care from a long-term perspective after oesophageal cancer surgery – A focus group study

Malmström

Klefsgård

Johansson

et al. 2013

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Patients' experiences of supportive care from a long-term perspective after oesophageal cancer surgery -A focus group study. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Purpose: To illuminate patients' experiences of supportive care from a long-term perspective after oesophagectomy or oesofagogastrectomy for cancer.Method: Data collection was carried out using semi-structured focus-group interviews.Seventeen patients were included in the study, divided into 4 focus groups. Data was analysed with conventional qualitative content analysis. Results:The patients' experiences of supportive care were captured in the theme "The need for a guiding light in the new life situation" and it was shown that support from the health care system as well as from the social network was experienced as important. The patients need support that starts at the hospital and that continues throughout the transition to outpatient care. This support should focus on developing a plan for the future and on providing the patients with information that will enable them to understand their new life situation. Conclusion:The findings indicated that the patients need a plan for the future, help in navigating the healthcare system and the provision of clear and honest information as well as a healthcare system that better overarches the gap between in and out-patient care. This suggests the need of developing and testing a supportive care programme that is designed according to the patients' needs and with focus on the potential to enhance the patients QOL after this life-changing surgery.

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“…Natürlich ist hier zu berück-sichtigen, dass die Teilnehmer an der Gruppenevaluationsstudie wussten, dass sie randomisiert würden, was möglicherweise die Teilnahmebereitschaft negativ beeinflusst hat. Teilnehmer an der Gruppenevaluationsstudie waren signifikant jünger als die bei- (Ernstmann et al 2009;Tuinman et al 2015), trotz dieses alters-und geschlechtsspezifischen Angebotes.…”

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Ergebnisse einer psychoonkologischen Gruppenintervention bei männlichen Krebspatienten ab 60 Jahren – eine randomisierte kontrollierte Studie

Schneider

Kropff

Unrath

et al. 2016

Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie

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Summary Results of a psychooncological group intervention in male cancer patients aged 60 years or olderObjective: To evaluate the acceptance and the success of a psychooncological group program in male patients aged 60 years or older with prostate or gastrointestinal cancer. Methods: We used a questionnaire designed to assess the desire to attend various psychooncological interventions (FIPA), randomization to a psychooncological group program (Weis et al. 2006) or treatment as usual, evaluation via questionnaires assessing participants' satisfaction with the program, quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30), anxiety and depression at inclusion (t0), last session (t1) and three months later (t2). Results: Whereas 48.9 % of those who filled out the FIPA questionnaire were in theory interested in a group program, only n = 51 (10.8 %) of the 473 cancer patients who were contacted agreed to participate; 25 thereof were randomized into the group program and 26 into the control group. Although their subjective satisfaction with the group program was high, participants in the group program had a less favorable outcome at t2 for the EORTC QLQ-C30 subscales "emotional role function," fatigue, pain, and insomnia. Discussion: Because of the small sample size, we cannot draw statistically sound conclusions regarding the benefits of the group program. It is certainly feasible for interested male cancer patients aged 60 years or older, but it is hard to motivate older men to participate in such an intervention. Z Psychosom Med Psychother 62/2016, 336-352 Keywords Psychooncology -Group Intervention -Aging Males -Randomized Controlled Trial ZusammenfassungFragestellung: Randomisierte kontrollierte Längsschnitt-Studie der Akzeptanz und Evaluation des Erfolges eines psychoonkologischen Gruppenprogramms bei Männern ab 60 Jahren mit Prostata-Karzinomen oder gastrointestinalen Malignomen.

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Determinants and implications of cancer patients’ psychosocial needs

Cited by 91 publications

References 45 publications

Perception of Patients with Cancer towards Support Management Services and Use of Complementary Alternative Medicine - a Single Institution Hospital-Based Study in Saudi Arabia

Perception of Patients with Cancer towards Support Management Services and Use of Complementary Alternative Medicine - a Single Institution Hospital-Based Study in Saudi Arabia

Patients' experiences of supportive care from a long-term perspective after oesophageal cancer surgery – A focus group study

Ergebnisse einer psychoonkologischen Gruppenintervention bei männlichen Krebspatienten ab 60 Jahren – eine randomisierte kontrollierte Studie

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