Multimodal Transplant-clinic-based Skin Cancer Prevention Education for Organ Transplant Recipients: Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT: We studied the feasibility of transplant-clinic staff routinely providing primary prevention advice to lung transplant recipients at high risk of skin cancer.

Methods

Patients enrolled by a transplant-clinic study nurse completed baseline questionnaires and received sun-safety brochures. For the 12-mo intervention, transplant physicians were alerted to provide standard sun-protection advice (use of hat, long sleeves, and sunscreen outdoors) by sun-advice prompt cards attached to participants' medical charts at each clinic visit. Patients indicated receiving advice from their physician and from study personnel via an exit-card postclinic, and at final study clinics, they also reported their sun behaviors by questionnaire. Feasibility of the intervention was measured by patients' and

SUBMITTER: Yu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10256390 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature