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Feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors

BACKGROUND: Cancer patients can experience a number of reproductive complications as a result of cancer treatment and may benefit from reproductive preventative health strategies. A Reproductive Survivorship Patient Reported Outcome Measure (RS-PROM) is not currently available but could assist patie...

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Autores principales: Gerstl, Brigitte, Signorelli, Christina, Wakefield, Claire E., D’Souza, Chantelle, Deans, Rebecca, Vaishnav, Tejnei, Johnston, Karen, Neville, Kristen A., Cohn, Richard J., Anazodo, Antoinette
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8396734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256497
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author Gerstl, Brigitte
Signorelli, Christina
Wakefield, Claire E.
D’Souza, Chantelle
Deans, Rebecca
Vaishnav, Tejnei
Johnston, Karen
Neville, Kristen A.
Cohn, Richard J.
Anazodo, Antoinette
author_facet Gerstl, Brigitte
Signorelli, Christina
Wakefield, Claire E.
D’Souza, Chantelle
Deans, Rebecca
Vaishnav, Tejnei
Johnston, Karen
Neville, Kristen A.
Cohn, Richard J.
Anazodo, Antoinette
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description BACKGROUND: Cancer patients can experience a number of reproductive complications as a result of cancer treatment and may benefit from reproductive preventative health strategies. A Reproductive Survivorship Patient Reported Outcome Measure (RS-PROM) is not currently available but could assist patients address reproductive concerns. PURPOSE: To develop and test the acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of a RS-PROM tool to be used to assess reproductive needs of cancer survivors aged 18–45 years. METHODS: We reviewed the outcomes of a recently published audit of reproductive care provided in our cancer survivorship clinic to identify gaps in current service provided and used this along with available validated reproductive measures, to develop this pilot RS-PROM. Survivors aged 18–45 years either attending the SCH survivorship clinic over a 1-year period or participants on the Australasian Oncofertility Registry (AOFR) who had agreed to be contacted for future research studies were asked to complete the RS-PROM and a questionnaire on the acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of content included. RESULTS: One-hundred and fifty patients participated (61.3% females). Median age at cancer diagnosis was 24.5 years (range: 2–45 years). Eighty percent of participants reported the length of the RS-PROM was “just right”, 92% agreed they would not mind completing the RS-PROM and 92.7% were willing to answer all questions, with 97% agreeing that the RS-PROM would be an important tool in addressing difficult sexual/reproductive topics concerning with healthcare professionals. CONCLUSION: The large majority of survivors participating in our pilot study found the RS-PROM to be an acceptable, feasible and useful tool to assist discussions of their sexual and reproductive health concerns and experiences with their clinical team.
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spelling pubmed-83967342021-08-28 Feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors Gerstl, Brigitte Signorelli, Christina Wakefield, Claire E. D’Souza, Chantelle Deans, Rebecca Vaishnav, Tejnei Johnston, Karen Neville, Kristen A. Cohn, Richard J. Anazodo, Antoinette PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Cancer patients can experience a number of reproductive complications as a result of cancer treatment and may benefit from reproductive preventative health strategies. A Reproductive Survivorship Patient Reported Outcome Measure (RS-PROM) is not currently available but could assist patients address reproductive concerns. PURPOSE: To develop and test the acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of a RS-PROM tool to be used to assess reproductive needs of cancer survivors aged 18–45 years. METHODS: We reviewed the outcomes of a recently published audit of reproductive care provided in our cancer survivorship clinic to identify gaps in current service provided and used this along with available validated reproductive measures, to develop this pilot RS-PROM. Survivors aged 18–45 years either attending the SCH survivorship clinic over a 1-year period or participants on the Australasian Oncofertility Registry (AOFR) who had agreed to be contacted for future research studies were asked to complete the RS-PROM and a questionnaire on the acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of content included. RESULTS: One-hundred and fifty patients participated (61.3% females). Median age at cancer diagnosis was 24.5 years (range: 2–45 years). Eighty percent of participants reported the length of the RS-PROM was “just right”, 92% agreed they would not mind completing the RS-PROM and 92.7% were willing to answer all questions, with 97% agreeing that the RS-PROM would be an important tool in addressing difficult sexual/reproductive topics concerning with healthcare professionals. CONCLUSION: The large majority of survivors participating in our pilot study found the RS-PROM to be an acceptable, feasible and useful tool to assist discussions of their sexual and reproductive health concerns and experiences with their clinical team. Public Library of Science 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8396734/ /pubmed/34449779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256497 Text en © 2021 Gerstl et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Signorelli, Christina
Wakefield, Claire E.
D’Souza, Chantelle
Deans, Rebecca
Vaishnav, Tejnei
Johnston, Karen
Neville, Kristen A.
Cohn, Richard J.
Anazodo, Antoinette
Feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors
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title_fullStr Feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors
title_short Feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors
title_sort feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a reproductive patient reported outcome measure for cancer survivors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8396734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256497
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