A prospective study monitoring carer distress during (chemo)radiotherapy for head and neck cancer via an electronic platform.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Research has shown that electronic platforms can assist data capture of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to guide clinical care. In comparison, routine collection of carer-reported outcome measures (CROMs) to support the patient-carer dyad during cancer treatment has had limited attention. The current study utilised a novel electronic CROM (eCROM) system, ScreenIT Carer, to monitor the prevalence and nature of distress in carers of patients undergoing (chemo)radiotherapy ((C)RT) for head/neck cancer (HNC), and explore factors associated with carer distress.

Methods

Carers completed ScreenIT Carer weekly when attending patients' (C)RT treatment sessions from planning to 2 weeks post-treatment. ScreenIT Carer included the Distress Thermometer (DT) and Pro

SUBMITTER: Wishart LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8168069 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature