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The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study
OBJECTIVE: Cancer patients, carers and oncology health professionals have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways, but their experiences and psychosocial responses to the pandemic are still being explored. This study aimed to document the experience of Australians living with cancer, fam...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35120797 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.01.020 |
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author | Butow, P. Havard, PE Butt, Z. Juraskova Sharpe, L. Dhillon, H. Beatty, L. Beale, P. Cigolini, M. Kelly, B. Chan, RJ Kirsten, L. Best, M. Shaw, J. |
author_facet | Butow, P. Havard, PE Butt, Z. Juraskova Sharpe, L. Dhillon, H. Beatty, L. Beale, P. Cigolini, M. Kelly, B. Chan, RJ Kirsten, L. Best, M. Shaw, J. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Cancer patients, carers and oncology health professionals have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways, but their experiences and psychosocial responses to the pandemic are still being explored. This study aimed to document the experience of Australians living with cancer, family carers, and Oncology health professionals (HPs) when COVID-19 first emerged. METHODS: In this qualitative study, participants (cancer patients currently receiving treatment, family carers and HPs) completed a semi-structured interview exploring their experiences of COVID-19 and the impact it had on cancer care. Participants also completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (patients) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (carers and HPs) to assess emotional morbidity. Thematic analysis was undertaken on qualitative data. RESULTS: 32 patients, 16 carers and 29 HPs participated. Qualitative analysis yielded three shared themes: fear and death anxiety, isolation, and uncertainty. For HPs, uncertainty incorporated the potential for moral distress and work-stress. Patients and carers scoring high on anxiety/depression measures were more likely to have advanced disease, expressed greater death anxiety, talked about taking more extreme precautionary measures, and felt more impacted by isolation. CONCLUSION: Cancer and COVID-19 can have compounding psychological impacts on all those receiving or giving care. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Screening for distress in patients, and burnout in HPs, is recommended. Increased compassionate access and provision of creative alternatives to face-to-face support are warrented. |
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spelling | pubmed-88016192022-01-31 The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study Butow, P. Havard, PE Butt, Z. Juraskova Sharpe, L. Dhillon, H. Beatty, L. Beale, P. Cigolini, M. Kelly, B. Chan, RJ Kirsten, L. Best, M. Shaw, J. Patient Educ Couns Article OBJECTIVE: Cancer patients, carers and oncology health professionals have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways, but their experiences and psychosocial responses to the pandemic are still being explored. This study aimed to document the experience of Australians living with cancer, family carers, and Oncology health professionals (HPs) when COVID-19 first emerged. METHODS: In this qualitative study, participants (cancer patients currently receiving treatment, family carers and HPs) completed a semi-structured interview exploring their experiences of COVID-19 and the impact it had on cancer care. Participants also completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (patients) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (carers and HPs) to assess emotional morbidity. Thematic analysis was undertaken on qualitative data. RESULTS: 32 patients, 16 carers and 29 HPs participated. Qualitative analysis yielded three shared themes: fear and death anxiety, isolation, and uncertainty. For HPs, uncertainty incorporated the potential for moral distress and work-stress. Patients and carers scoring high on anxiety/depression measures were more likely to have advanced disease, expressed greater death anxiety, talked about taking more extreme precautionary measures, and felt more impacted by isolation. CONCLUSION: Cancer and COVID-19 can have compounding psychological impacts on all those receiving or giving care. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Screening for distress in patients, and burnout in HPs, is recommended. Increased compassionate access and provision of creative alternatives to face-to-face support are warrented. Elsevier B.V. 2022-07 2022-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8801619/ /pubmed/35120797 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.01.020 Text en © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Butow, P. Havard, PE Butt, Z. Juraskova Sharpe, L. Dhillon, H. Beatty, L. Beale, P. Cigolini, M. Kelly, B. Chan, RJ Kirsten, L. Best, M. Shaw, J. The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study |
title | The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study |
title_full | The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study |
title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study |
title_short | The impact of COVID-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: A qualitative study |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on cancer patients, their carers and oncology health professionals: a qualitative study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35120797 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.01.020 |
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