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Cancer-related fatigue: benefits of information booklets to improve patients’ knowledge and empowerment

PURPOSE: To investigate cancer patients’ knowledge and attitudes regarding fatigue and the potential benefits and acceptability of a brief information booklet. METHODS: The CARPE DIEM study assessed knowledge and attitudes regarding fatigue in a diverse group of 50 cancer patients before (T0) and ab...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Martina E., Milzer, Marlena, Weiß, Cécile, Reinke, Paul, Grapp, Miriam, Steindorf, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35147759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-022-06833-w
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author Schmidt, Martina E.
Milzer, Marlena
Weiß, Cécile
Reinke, Paul
Grapp, Miriam
Steindorf, Karen
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Weiß, Cécile
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description PURPOSE: To investigate cancer patients’ knowledge and attitudes regarding fatigue and the potential benefits and acceptability of a brief information booklet. METHODS: The CARPE DIEM study assessed knowledge and attitudes regarding fatigue in a diverse group of 50 cancer patients before (T0) and about one (T1) and four months (T2) after reading the booklet. At T1, participants additionally rated its usefulness. RESULTS: At baseline, 37.5% of respondents did not know the term “fatigue” or what it meant. Those who already knew something about fatigue mainly had obtained their information from booklets, books, or articles (63.3%) and/or the internet (46.7%). Overall, knowledge gaps existed, particularly about potential fatigue treatment options and whether fatigue is an indicator of cancer progression. Furthermore, 56.4% felt poorly informed, and 46.1% reported feeling helpless in the face of fatigue. Lower knowledge at baseline was significantly associated with lower education and older age. At T1 and T2, there were significant improvements in several knowledge questions and attitudes. Patient-reported benefits included getting new information about fatigue (91.1%), awareness of not being alone with their problems (89.7%), taking appropriate actions (72.9%), and encouragement to talk about their fatigue with family/friends (55.3%) or with a health professional (52.7%). CONCLUSIONS: Specific gaps were identified in the provision of information and education for cancer patients about fatigue. A low-cost intervention asking to read a brief information booklet was associated with improved knowledge. This could be considered as a first step offered as part of a bundle of further efforts to improve knowledge and care of fatigue. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00520-022-06833-w.
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spelling pubmed-88530582022-02-18 Cancer-related fatigue: benefits of information booklets to improve patients’ knowledge and empowerment Schmidt, Martina E. Milzer, Marlena Weiß, Cécile Reinke, Paul Grapp, Miriam Steindorf, Karen Support Care Cancer Original Article PURPOSE: To investigate cancer patients’ knowledge and attitudes regarding fatigue and the potential benefits and acceptability of a brief information booklet. METHODS: The CARPE DIEM study assessed knowledge and attitudes regarding fatigue in a diverse group of 50 cancer patients before (T0) and about one (T1) and four months (T2) after reading the booklet. At T1, participants additionally rated its usefulness. RESULTS: At baseline, 37.5% of respondents did not know the term “fatigue” or what it meant. Those who already knew something about fatigue mainly had obtained their information from booklets, books, or articles (63.3%) and/or the internet (46.7%). Overall, knowledge gaps existed, particularly about potential fatigue treatment options and whether fatigue is an indicator of cancer progression. Furthermore, 56.4% felt poorly informed, and 46.1% reported feeling helpless in the face of fatigue. Lower knowledge at baseline was significantly associated with lower education and older age. At T1 and T2, there were significant improvements in several knowledge questions and attitudes. Patient-reported benefits included getting new information about fatigue (91.1%), awareness of not being alone with their problems (89.7%), taking appropriate actions (72.9%), and encouragement to talk about their fatigue with family/friends (55.3%) or with a health professional (52.7%). CONCLUSIONS: Specific gaps were identified in the provision of information and education for cancer patients about fatigue. A low-cost intervention asking to read a brief information booklet was associated with improved knowledge. This could be considered as a first step offered as part of a bundle of further efforts to improve knowledge and care of fatigue. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00520-022-06833-w. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-02-11 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8853058/ /pubmed/35147759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-022-06833-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853058/
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