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Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective
Promoting the return to work of breast cancer survivors is of major interest to patients, healthcare and occupational health professionals, companies, governments, and researchers worldwide. We previously conducted a French consensus study resulting in a model describing the multifactorial process o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9105271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095124 |
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author | Porro, Bertrand Campone, Mario Moreau, Philippe Roquelaure, Yves |
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description | Promoting the return to work of breast cancer survivors is of major interest to patients, healthcare and occupational health professionals, companies, governments, and researchers worldwide. We previously conducted a French consensus study resulting in a model describing the multifactorial process of the return to work of breast cancer survivors (the REWORK-BC model). Other work has identified the transtheoretical model as a relevant theoretical framework for interventions to promote the return to work of cancer survivors. In this opinion paper, we provide a theoretically-based clinical framework describing how to support breast cancer survivors at each stage of the return-to-work process. This clinical framework considers several essential aspects of supportive care for breast cancer survivors returning to work, such as: (i) helping the patient actively self-manage, by considering her to be the main decision-maker; (ii) respecting and adapting to the patient’s choice of professional project; (iii) respecting the temporality of the patient’s choices; (iv) proposing tailored interventions; (v) implementing simple tools to promote the return to work, shared representation between the patient and a multidisciplinary team, and improvement of working conditions and the knowledge of health and occupational professionals, and managers or employers; and (vi) maintaining certain flexibility aimed at proposing, but never imposing, changes in practices. This clinical framework, specific to breast cancer survivors, could be extrapolated to other tumor types, offering a practical guide for healthcare and occupational health professionals to better understand the return-to-work process of cancer survivors. This clinical framework aims to be a usable tool for any hospital or cancer care center wishing to implement a patient-centered intervention that promotes returning to work, regardless of the country. |
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spelling | pubmed-91052712022-05-14 Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective Porro, Bertrand Campone, Mario Moreau, Philippe Roquelaure, Yves Int J Environ Res Public Health Opinion Promoting the return to work of breast cancer survivors is of major interest to patients, healthcare and occupational health professionals, companies, governments, and researchers worldwide. We previously conducted a French consensus study resulting in a model describing the multifactorial process of the return to work of breast cancer survivors (the REWORK-BC model). Other work has identified the transtheoretical model as a relevant theoretical framework for interventions to promote the return to work of cancer survivors. In this opinion paper, we provide a theoretically-based clinical framework describing how to support breast cancer survivors at each stage of the return-to-work process. This clinical framework considers several essential aspects of supportive care for breast cancer survivors returning to work, such as: (i) helping the patient actively self-manage, by considering her to be the main decision-maker; (ii) respecting and adapting to the patient’s choice of professional project; (iii) respecting the temporality of the patient’s choices; (iv) proposing tailored interventions; (v) implementing simple tools to promote the return to work, shared representation between the patient and a multidisciplinary team, and improvement of working conditions and the knowledge of health and occupational professionals, and managers or employers; and (vi) maintaining certain flexibility aimed at proposing, but never imposing, changes in practices. This clinical framework, specific to breast cancer survivors, could be extrapolated to other tumor types, offering a practical guide for healthcare and occupational health professionals to better understand the return-to-work process of cancer survivors. This clinical framework aims to be a usable tool for any hospital or cancer care center wishing to implement a patient-centered intervention that promotes returning to work, regardless of the country. MDPI 2022-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9105271/ /pubmed/35564514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095124 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Opinion Porro, Bertrand Campone, Mario Moreau, Philippe Roquelaure, Yves Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective |
title | Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective |
title_full | Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective |
title_fullStr | Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective |
title_short | Supporting the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Survivors: From a Theoretical to a Clinical Perspective |
title_sort | supporting the return to work of breast cancer survivors: from a theoretical to a clinical perspective |
topic | Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9105271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095124 |
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