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. 2021 Jan-Dec:28:10732748211011957.
doi: 10.1177/10732748211011957.

Understanding the Delivery of Patient-Centered Survivorship Care Planning: An Exploratory Interview Study With Complex Cancer Survivors

Jessica D Austin  1   2 , Marlyn Allicock  3   4   5 , Maria E Fernandez  3   5 , Bijal A Balasubramanian  4   5   6 , Simon Craddock Lee  3   4   7
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Understanding the Delivery of Patient-Centered Survivorship Care Planning: An Exploratory Interview Study With Complex Cancer Survivors

Jessica D Austin et al. Cancer Control. 2021 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

Introduction: Understanding key elements of the survivorship care planning process, such as patient-centered communication (PCC) and health self-efficacy, are critical for delivering patient-centered survivorship care to cancer survivors with multiple chronic conditions ("complex cancer survivors"). Building upon our team's recent research efforts to examine the survivorship care planning process from a patient-centered lens, this exploratory study leveraged an ongoing quasi-experimental trial to elucidate the experience of complex cancer survivors with survivorship care planning and post-treatment management.

Methods: We conducted a hypothesis-generating thematic content analysis on 8 interview transcripts.

Results: Survivors reported positive experiences communicating with their oncology care team but the presence of multiple chronic conditions in addition to cancer creates additional barriers to patient-centered survivorship care.

Conclusion: These findings support the need for further in-depth research aimed at improving PCC across all care teams and enabling self-management by delivering more personalized survivorship care planning that aligns with survivor's needs, values, and preferences.

Keywords: United States; cancer; complex; quality; survivorship.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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