Cancer patient perspectives on survivorship goals from the Smart Patients online community.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer impacts individuals' life goals. Recent cancer care guidelines recommend discussing life goals as part of patient-provider communication. The goal of this study was to understand patients' attitudes toward goal sharing with their cancer care providers.

Patients and methods

Semi-structured questionnaires were conducted via email with cancer patients and survivors (n = 39) on an online social network called Smart Patients. Participants answered open-ended questions about their life goals. They then completed a survey regarding their attitudes toward goal sharing with healthcare providers. The study team used an integrated inductive-deductive qualitative analysis to identify conceptual themes.

Results

Participants listed goals related to improving physi

SUBMITTER: Hoskote M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8191477 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature