Open AccessCancer patient perspectives on survivorship goals from the Smart Patients online community
Author(s) -
Mekhala Hoskote,
Gem M. Le,
Roy Cherian,
Roni Zeiger,
Urmimala Sarkar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
supportive care in cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.133
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1433-7339
pISSN - 0941-4355
DOI - 10.1007/s00520-020-05734-0
Subject(s) - nursing research , pain medicine , focus group , medicine , qualitative research , cancer survivor , quality of life (healthcare) , psychology , anxiety , nursing , cancer , psychiatry , social science , marketing , anesthesiology , sociology , business
Cancer impacts individuals' life goals. Recent cancer care guidelines recommend discussing life goals as part of patient-provider communication. The goal of this study was to understand patients' attitudes toward goal sharing with their cancer care providers.