Integrating perspectives of patients, healthcare professionals, system developers and academics in the co-design of a digital information tool.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients diagnosed with cancer who are due to commence radiotherapy, often, despite the provision of a considerable amount of information, report a range of unmet information needs about the treatment process. Factors such as inadequate provision of information, or the stressful situation of having to deal with information about unfamiliar things, may influence the patient's ability to comprehend the information. There is a need to further advance the format in which such information is presented. The composition of information should be tailored according to the patient's individual needs and style of learning.

Method and findings

The PD methodology is frequently used when a technology designed artefact is the desired result of the process. This research is descr

SUBMITTER: Grynne A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8284604 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature