Palliative care needs of the cancer patients receiving active therapy

Bağçıvan, Gülcan; Seven, Memnun; Paşalak, Şeyma İnciser; Bilmiç, Ezgi; Aydın, Yasemin; Öz, Gözde; Selçukbiricik, Fatih

doi:10.1007/s00520-021-06485-2

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“…Finally, in this study on SCNs, we did not ask whether the needs were met or unmet (Hodgkinson et al, 2007;Bağçivan et al, 2022), and we did not ask whether there were unexpressed needs (Heß et al, 2022). A detailed analysis of met and unmet needs in further studies would provide a better insight into the nature of the needs of palliative cancer patients.…”

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Supportive care needs and health-related quality of life in cancer patients receiving palliative care

Schnabel,

Lordick,

Oberth

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectiveCancer patients receiving palliative care experience a variety of impairments in their quality of life (QoL), and have corresponding supportive care needs (SCNs). The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between SCNs, satisfaction with QoL dimensions, and the perceived importance of these dimensions.MethodA sample of 152 cancer patients receiving palliative care were included in this cross-sectional study. Eight dimensions of QoL were defined and assessed concerning SCNs, satisfaction, and subjective importance using a new assessment instrument with five-point scales (range 1–5) for each dimension.ResultsAmong the eight specific domains examined, the greatest SCNs were observed for absence of pain (M = 3.18; SD = 1.29). The patients were least satisfied with their physical functioning (M = 2.60; SD = 0.84), and the dimension social relationships (M = 4.14; SD = 0.72) received the highest perceived importance ratings. The eight dimensions’ SCNs scores were significantly correlated with each other (r between 0.29 and 0.79); the lowest correlations were found for social relationships. The correlations between the satisfaction scores and the SCNs differed from dimension to dimension, with coefficients between −0.32 (absence of pain) and − 0.57 (sleep quality).ConclusionThe results show that detriments in QoL do not automatically indicate high levels of SCNs in those dimensions. Health care providers should consider both factors, QoL (as measured with QoL questionnaires) and subjectively expressed SCNs, to optimize their patients’ care regimens.

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Supportive care needs and health-related quality of life in cancer patients receiving palliative care

Schnabel,

Lordick,

Oberth

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In our study, we assessed SCNs without a deeper specification of their nature; we did not ask whether the needs were unmet or not [16,40], and we also did not ask whether there were unexpressed needs among the SCNs. A study with palliative cancer patients [41] considered four categories of SCNs: no problems, problems but no need, met need, and unmet need. Most patients reported no problems with concentration (84%) in that study but among the patients with concentration problems the frequency of unmet needs (70%) was the highest.…”

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The Relationship between Supportive Care Needs and Health-Related Quality of Life in Cancer Patients

Hinz,

Lehmann-Laue,

Richter

et al. 2023

Healthcare

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The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between quality of life (QoL) and supportive care needs (SCNs) in cancer patients. It is difficult to relate SCNs to detriments in QoL since SCNs and QoL assessment tools generally comprise different dimensions that cannot be directly related to each other. Therefore, we developed a short questionnaire with eight dimensions for uniformly measuring SCNs, QoL, and the subjective importance of these dimensions. A total of 1108 cancer patients with mixed diagnoses assessed eight dimensions of health-related QoL concerning SCNs, satisfaction, and importance. Among the eight dimensions of QoL, physical functioning received the highest SCN assessments (M = 3.4), while autonomy (M = 20.7) and social relationships (M = 1.88) were the dimensions with the lowest SCN mean scores on the 1–5 scale. For each of the eight dimensions, high levels of SCNs were reported by those patients who had low levels of satisfaction with that dimension (r between −0.32 and −0.66). The subjective importance of the dimensions was not consistently correlated with SCNs (r between −0.19 and 0.20). Females reported higher SCNs than males in six of the eight specific dimensions. Patients with prostate and male genital cancers reported the lowest SCNs. These results suggest gender-specific SCN patterns that warrant further exploration. This study highlights the value of a unified assessment instrument for SCNs and QoL, providing a robust basis for future cancer care strategies.

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Preliminary results regarding automated identification of patients with a limited six-month survival prognosis using nursing assessment in uro-oncology patients

Roch

Kielkopf

Stefenelli

et al. 2023

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

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Palliative care needs of the cancer patients receiving active therapy

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Supportive care needs and health-related quality of life in cancer patients receiving palliative care

Supportive care needs and health-related quality of life in cancer patients receiving palliative care

The Relationship between Supportive Care Needs and Health-Related Quality of Life in Cancer Patients

Preliminary results regarding automated identification of patients with a limited six-month survival prognosis using nursing assessment in uro-oncology patients

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