Exploring what influences the uptake of cancer rehabilitation services: a realist informed mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate how uptake of cancer rehabilitation services is affected by information provision and whether it is influenced by people's perception and attitudes towards rehabilitation interventions and therapies.

Design

This study followed a realist informed mixed-methods design. Descriptive secondary analysis of a cancer rehabilitation database containing information about number of people attending services, their diagnosis and sex and semi-structured interviews with people affected by cancer (PABC) and healthcare professionals (HCPs) were conducted.

Setting

Cancer rehabilitation services located in two cancer centres in South Wales, UK.

Participants

PABC who received care from any of the included cancer rehabilitation services. HCPs providing ca

SUBMITTER: Csontos JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11575298 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature