Receptivity to a Nurse-Led Symptom Management Intervention Among Highly Symptomatic Patients With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The symptom burden associated with cancer and its treatment can negatively affect patients' quality of life and survival. Symptom-focused collaborative care model (CCM) interventions can improve outcomes, but only if patients engage with them. We assessed the receptivity of severely symptomatic oncology patients to a remote nurse-led CCM intervention.

Methods

In a pragmatic, cluster-randomized, stepped-wedge trial conducted as part of the National Cancer Institute IMPACT Consortium (E2C2, NCT03892967), patients receiving cancer care were asked to rate their sleep disturbance, pain, anxiety, emotional distress, fatigue, and limitations in physical function. Patients reporting at least 1 severe symptom (≥7/10) were offered phone consultation with a nurse symptom car

SUBMITTER: Wintheiser GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8902324 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature