Valued life abilities among veteran cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When patients have multiple chronic illnesses, it is not feasible to provide disease-based care when treatments for one condition adversely affect another. Instead, health-care delivery requires a broader person-centred treatment plan based on collaborative, patient-oriented values and goals.

Objective

We examined the individual variability, thematic content, and sociodemographic correlates of valued life abilities and activities among multimorbid veterans diagnosed with life-altering cancer.

Setting and participants

Participants were 144 veterans in the 'Vet-Cares' study who completed a health-care values and goals scale 12 months after diagnosis of head and neck, gastro-oesophageal, or colorectal cancer. They had mean age of 65 years and one quarter ident

SUBMITTER: Karel MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4869069 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature