Health care professionals' experiences of dealing with cancer cachexia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer cachexia (CC) is a debilitating syndrome severely impacting patients' quality of life and survivorship. We aimed to investigate the health care professionals' (HCPs') experiences of dealing with CC.

Methods

Survey questions entailed definitions and guidelines, importance of CC management, clinician confidence and involvement, screening and assessment, interventions, psychosocial and food aspects. The online survey was disseminated through Australian and New Zealand palliative care, oncology, allied health and nursing organisations. Frequencies were reported using descriptive statistics accounting for response rates. Associations were examined between variables using Fisher's exact and Pearson's chi-square tests.

Results

Over 90% of the respondents (n

SUBMITTER: Ellis J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066081 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature