"I Wish There had been Resources": A Photo-Elicitation Study of Rectal Cancer Survivorship Care Needs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rectal cancer survivors experience unique, prolonged posttherapy symptoms. Previous data indicate that providers are not skilled at identifying the most pertinent rectal cancer survivorship issues. Consequently, survivorship care is incomplete with the majority of rectal cancer survivors reporting at least one unmet posttherapy need.

Methods

This photo-elicitation study combines participant-submitted photographs and minimally structured qualitative interviews to explore one's lived experiences. Twenty rectal cancer survivors from a single tertiary canter provided photographs representative of their life after rectal cancer therapy. The iterative steps informed by inductive thematic analysis were used to analyze the transcribed interviews.

Results

Rectal can

SUBMITTER: Rivard SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10460498 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature