Changes after cancer diagnosis and return to work: experience of Korean cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer patients' return to work is a growing aspect of survivorship care, yet limited studies have been conducted in Korea to understand the work-related experience of cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to understand the unmet needs of cancer patients and identify the necessary factors to develop a vocational intervention program based on cancer patients' work-related experience after cancer diagnosis.

Methods

Semi-structured individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 50 cancer patients who were working at the time of diagnosis at a university hospital in Seoul, South Korea from July to September of 2017. Interview data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Results

'The changes patients experienced after cancer diagnosis' wer

SUBMITTER: Bae KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7818925 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature