Specialist breast cancer nurses' views on implementing a fear of cancer recurrence intervention in practice: a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) in people with breast cancer affects treatment recovery, quality of life, service utilisation and relationships. Our aim was to investigate how specialist breast cancer nurses (SBCN) respond to their patients' fears of cancer recurrence and analyse SBCN's views about embedding a new psychological intervention, the Mini-AFTERc, into their consultations.

Method

A mixed methods sequential design was used, informed by normalisation process theory. Phase 1: UK SBCNs were emailed a web-based survey to investigate how breast cancer survivors' FCR is currently identified and managed, and their willingness to utilise the Mini-AFTERc. Phase 2: a purposive sample of respondents (n = 20) were interviewed to augment phase 1 responses, and expl

SUBMITTER: Cruickshank S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6882748 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature