Holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Design

Analyst blinded, parallel, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Participants

People with confirmed diagnoses of cancer (head and neck, skin or colorectal) attending follow-up consultation 3 months post-treatment between 2015 and 2020.

Intervention

Holistic needs assessment (HNA) or care as usual during consultation.

Objective

To establish whether incorporating HNA into consultations would increase patient participation, shared decision making and postconsultation self-efficacy.

Outcome measures

Patient participation in the consultations examined was measured using (a) dialogue ratio (DR) and (b) the proportion of consultation initiated by patient. Shared decision making was measured with CollaboRATE and self-efficacy with Lorig Scale.

SUBMITTER: Snowden A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163480 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature