Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Bearing in mind the increasing population today living with a history of cancer in the United States, it is important to attend to quality of life and health of this group, and to develop effective interventions to attempt to solve psychosocial and physical concerns across the cancer trajectory.The goal of this study is to document the need for attention to psychosocial domains; offer a brief overview in the current status of the literature on psychosocial interventions effects in patients, especially survivors; highlight recent statistics of how psychosocial interventions directed towards cancer survivors; and identify directions for future applications and research.This study explores distress screening for unmet needs in cancer patients.This study showed that the level of distress is not significant when looked at the patient type suggesting that cancer patients that have left the treatment requires the same level of psychosocial care.This study reinforces the importance of additional research on this topic and the need for the health care and psychosocial care team to look at the unmet needs of this population.
Author: Nogueira de Andrade, Mariana
Language: English
Topic: Cancer survivorship and care
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7045756542