Healthcare professionals' perspectives on the unmet needs of cancer patients and family caregivers: global psycho-oncology investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This international study aimed to compare healthcare professionals' perspectives on the unmet needs of their cancer patients with those of family caregivers and to investigate the degree to which patients' age group moderates the associations.

Methods

Healthcare professionals involved in the care for cancer patients and their family caregivers were invited to participate in the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) Survivorship Online Survey. A total of 397 healthcare professionals from 34 countries provided valid study data. The participants evaluated whether the unmet need was the same for all age groups of patients and the degree of their patients' needs not being met per patients' age group. They evaluated the same questions for family caregivers.

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SUBMITTER: Wang AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10715848 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature