Exploring experiences and coping strategies of the surveillance of indeterminate pulmonary nodules: a qualitative content analysis among participants in the SCAPIS trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To elucidate experiences and coping strategies among adults in the surveillance of indeterminate pulmonary nodules detected with CT in the population-based Swedish CardioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS).

Design

A qualitative study of conventional content analysis.

Settings

The study was conducted at a university hospital in a southern region of Sweden. The SCAPIS setting is similar to the first round of a population-based lung cancer screening programme.

Participants

Participants in SCAPIS who had experienced psychosocial consequences of the surveillance were eligible. Participants of both genders, current, former and non-smokers and of different follow-ups in the surveillance were included. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 19 participant

SUBMITTER: Dai Ydrefelt Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11429254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature