Updating a conceptual model of effective symptom management in palliative care to include patient and carer perspective: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A conceptual model of effective symptom management was previously developed from interviews with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals (HCP) working in English hospices. Here we aimed to answer the question; does a HCP data-derived model represent the experience of patients and carers of people with advanced cancer?

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with six patients with advanced cancer and six carers to gain an in-depth understanding of their experience of symptom management. Analysis was based on the framework method; transcription, familiarisation, coding, applying analytical framework (conceptual model), charting, interpretation. Inductive framework analysis was used to align data with themes in the existing model. A deductive approach w

SUBMITTER: Chapman EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11331639 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature