Developing a community-based intervention to improve quality of life in people with colorectal cancer: a complex intervention development study.

ABSTRACT: To develop and pilot a theory and evidence-based intervention to improve quality of life (QoL) in people with colorectal cancer. A complex intervention development study. North East Scotland and Glasgow. Semistructured interviews with people with colorectal cancer (n=28), cancer specialists (n=16) and primary care health professionals (n=14) and pilot testing with patients (n=12). A single, 1 h nurse home visit 6-12 weeks after diagnosis, and telephone follow-up 1 week later (with a view to ongoing follow-up in future). Qualitative assessment of intervention feasibility and acceptability. Modifiable predictors of QoL identified previously were symptoms (fatigue, pain, diarrhoea, shortness of breath, insomnia, anorexia/cachexia, poor psychological well-being, sexual problems) and impaired a

SUBMITTER: Gray NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641512 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature