Monitoring symptoms at home: what methods would cancer patients be comfortable using?
Purpose: This study aimed to determine which methods of remote symptom assessment cancer outpatients would be comfortable using, including those involving information technology, and whether this varied with age and gender.Methods: A questionnaire survey of 477 outpatients attending the Edinburgh Ca...
| Publicado en: | Quality of Life Research Vol. 19; no. 7; pp. 965 - 969 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Sep2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104916508&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104916508 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09629343 GPQ jtl: Quality of Life Research issn: 09629343 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2010 vid: 19 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 104916508 NLM20446045 2010753039 10.1007/s11136-010-9662-0 NLM20446045 104916508 ppf: 965 ppct: 4 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Monitoring symptoms at home: what methods would cancer patients be comfortable using? aug: au: Kleiboer A Gowing K Holm Hansen C Hibberd C Hodges L Walker J Thekkumpurath P O'Connor M Murray G Sharpe M Kleiboer, Annet Gowing, Katie Holm Hansen, Christian Hibberd, Carina Hodges, Laura Walker, Jane Thekkumpurath, Parvez O'Connor, Mark Murray, Gordon Sharpe, Michael affil: Psychological Medicine Research, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, UK sug: subj: Home Health Care Neoplasms Therapy Patient Attitudes Telemedicine Adult Aged Aged, 80 and Over Cross Sectional Studies Data Collection Female Human Male Middle Age Monitoring, Physiologic Methods Young Adult Adult: 19-44 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: Purpose: This study aimed to determine which methods of remote symptom assessment cancer outpatients would be comfortable using, including those involving information technology, and whether this varied with age and gender.Methods: A questionnaire survey of 477 outpatients attending the Edinburgh Cancer Centre in Edinburgh, UK.Results: Most patients reported that they would not feel comfortable using methods involving technology such as a secure website, email, mobile phone text message, or a computer voice on the telephone but that they would be more comfortable using more traditional methods such as a paper questionnaire, speaking to a nurse on the telephone, or giving information in person.Conclusions: The uptake of new, potentially cost-effective technology-based methods of monitoring patients' symptoms at home might be limited by patients' initial discomfort with the idea of using them. It will be important to develop methods of addressing this potential barrier (such as detailed explanation and supervised practice) if these methods are to be successfully implemented. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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