Social, psychological and existential well-being in patients with glioma and their caregivers: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cerebral glioma has a devastating impact on cognitive, physical, social, psychological and spiritual well-being. We sought to understand the multidimensional experience of patients with this form of cancer as they progressed from receiving a diagnosis to the terminal phase of the disease.

Methods

We recruited patients with a suspected brain tumour from a tertiary referral centre in the United Kingdom. We interviewed patients and their caregivers at key stages of the illness: before receiving a formal diagnosis, at the start of initial treatment, after initial treatment was completed and at six months' follow-up; caregivers were also interviewed postbereavement. We interviewed the patients' general practitioners once, after treatment had been completed. We transcri

SUBMITTER: Cavers D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3328542 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature