Co-developing a theory of change for a personalised multimodal cancer prehabilitation programme in South Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence suggests that prehabilitation interventions, which optimise physical and mental health prior to treatment, can improve outcomes for surgical cancer patients and save costs to the health system through faster recovery and fewer complications. However, robust, theory-based evaluations of these programmes are needed. Using a theory of change (ToC) approach can guide evaluation plans by describing how and why a programme is expected to work. Theories of Change have not been developed for cancer prehabilitation programmes in the literature to date. This paper aims to provide an overview of the methodological steps we used to retrospectively construct a ToC for Prehab2Rehab (P2R), a cancer prehabilitation programme being implemented by the Cardiff and Vale University

SUBMITTER: Walklett J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11613770 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature