Lifestyle advice to cancer survivors: a qualitative study on the perspectives of health professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviours has shown promising effectiveness in reducing the high morbidity burden of cancer survivors. Health professionals (HPs) are well suited to provide lifestyle advice but few survivors report receiving guidance from them. This study aimed to explore HPs' perspective of lifestyle advice (on healthy eating, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol) for cancer survivors.

Design

In-depth semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted by telephone or face to face. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis.

Setting and participants

Twenty-one UK HPs working in secondary care with breast, prostate or colorectal cancer survivors were interviewed.

Results

The overarching theme was that HPs' desire to prov

SUBMITTER: Koutoukidis DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875617 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature