Patient and health practitioner views and experiences of a cancer trial before and during COVID-19: qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding patient and health practitioner perspectives on clinical trials can inform opportunities to enhance trial conduct and design, and therefore patient experience. Patients with haematological cancers have faced additional risk and uncertainty during the pandemic but it is unclear how they and practitioners have experienced cancer trials during this period. In the context of a haemato-oncology trial (PETReA), we compared patient and practitioner views and experiences of PETReA before and during COVID-19.

Methods

Qualitative study embedded within PETReA. Semi-structured interviews (N=41) with patients and practitioners from 16 NHS sites before (n=17) and during the first wave of COVID-19 (n=24). Analysis drew on the framework approach.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Sherratt FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206129 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature