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Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
This study examined unmet supportive care needs for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients by cancer stage and treatment phase, as well as the factors associated with these unmet needs. At a cancer center in central Taiwan, information on consultations and services patients received at the resource...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32443492 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103519 |
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author | Lin, Ya-Ling Chuang, Chun-Yi Hsieh, Vivian Chia-Rong Tsai, Ming-Shou Liu, Yen-Fang Chen, Xian-Xiu Shieh, Shwn-Huey |
author_facet | Lin, Ya-Ling Chuang, Chun-Yi Hsieh, Vivian Chia-Rong Tsai, Ming-Shou Liu, Yen-Fang Chen, Xian-Xiu Shieh, Shwn-Huey |
author_sort | Lin, Ya-Ling |
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description | This study examined unmet supportive care needs for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients by cancer stage and treatment phase, as well as the factors associated with these unmet needs. At a cancer center in central Taiwan, information on consultations and services patients received at the resource center was described in the service chart. We extracted data available for NPC patients to evaluate their unmet supportive care needs (health information, patient care, treatment, nutritional, psychosocial, and economic) and their association with sex, age, cancer stage, and treatment phase. The 145 NPC patients were 68.3% male, 60.0% less than 50 years old, and 83.5% diagnosed at stages III and IV. The most prevalent unmet need was nutritional (40.7%), followed by psychosocial and patient care, with economic unmet needs the least (4.8%). Women were more likely than men to have patient care unmet needs (32.6% vs. 15.2%). Nutritional unmet need was higher in older patients than in younger ones (83.3% vs. 35.6%), with an adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of 9.39 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.17–40.70). Psychosocial unmet needs were higher in younger patients than old patients (34.5% vs. 0%) and in patients interviewed during follow-up period than those at newly diagnosed (55.2% vs. 23.1%). In conclusion, the most commonly reported concern was nutritional unmet needs for NPC patients. Their unmet needs may vary by demographic and disease factors, including patient sex and age, cancer stage, and treatment phase. |
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spelling | pubmed-72771412020-06-15 Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Lin, Ya-Ling Chuang, Chun-Yi Hsieh, Vivian Chia-Rong Tsai, Ming-Shou Liu, Yen-Fang Chen, Xian-Xiu Shieh, Shwn-Huey Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This study examined unmet supportive care needs for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients by cancer stage and treatment phase, as well as the factors associated with these unmet needs. At a cancer center in central Taiwan, information on consultations and services patients received at the resource center was described in the service chart. We extracted data available for NPC patients to evaluate their unmet supportive care needs (health information, patient care, treatment, nutritional, psychosocial, and economic) and their association with sex, age, cancer stage, and treatment phase. The 145 NPC patients were 68.3% male, 60.0% less than 50 years old, and 83.5% diagnosed at stages III and IV. The most prevalent unmet need was nutritional (40.7%), followed by psychosocial and patient care, with economic unmet needs the least (4.8%). Women were more likely than men to have patient care unmet needs (32.6% vs. 15.2%). Nutritional unmet need was higher in older patients than in younger ones (83.3% vs. 35.6%), with an adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of 9.39 (95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.17–40.70). Psychosocial unmet needs were higher in younger patients than old patients (34.5% vs. 0%) and in patients interviewed during follow-up period than those at newly diagnosed (55.2% vs. 23.1%). In conclusion, the most commonly reported concern was nutritional unmet needs for NPC patients. Their unmet needs may vary by demographic and disease factors, including patient sex and age, cancer stage, and treatment phase. MDPI 2020-05-18 2020-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7277141/ /pubmed/32443492 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103519 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lin, Ya-Ling Chuang, Chun-Yi Hsieh, Vivian Chia-Rong Tsai, Ming-Shou Liu, Yen-Fang Chen, Xian-Xiu Shieh, Shwn-Huey Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
title | Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
title_full | Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
title_fullStr | Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
title_short | Unmet Supportive Care Needs of Survival Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma |
title_sort | unmet supportive care needs of survival patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32443492 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103519 |
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