COVID-19 perceptions, impacts, and experiences: a cross-sectional analysis among New Jersey cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer survivors are particularly vulnerable to adverse COVID-19-related outcomes, but limited data exist on perceptions about the pandemic and related experiences in this group.

Methods

In a cross-sectional analysis of 494 survivors of genitourinary, breast, gynecologic, colorectal, lung, melanoma, or thyroid cancer, from a larger study of cancer survivors in New Jersey, we assessed perceptions about COVID-19 threat, impacts, and experiences using three validated instruments. Responses were coded on a 7-point Likert scale, and subscales were averaged across included items, with higher scores indicating greater perceptions of COVID-19 threat and greater impacts and experiences because of the pandemic. Multivariable linear regression models were used to determine f

SUBMITTER: Llanos AAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9336177 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature