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Palliative care among adult cancer survivors: Knowledge, attitudes, and correlates
- Source :
- Palliat Support Care, Web of Science
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021.
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Abstract
- ObjectivePalliative care (PC) is patient and family-centered supportive care intended to improve symptom management, reduce caregiver burden, coordinate care, and improve quality of life for patients diagnosed with serious illness. Optimally, PC is begun close to initial diagnosis and delivered in synchrony with disease-specific treatment until symptom relief or patient death. The purpose of this study was to examine cancer survivors’ knowledge and perceptions of PC using a nationally representative sample of US adults from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).MethodA total of 593 HINTS respondents reported a personal history of cancer and were included in the sample (55.56% female; mean age of 65.88 years, SD = 18.21; mean time from diagnosis 13.83 years, SD = 18.21). Weighted logistic regression models were conducted to identify correlates of PC knowledge.ResultsOf the 593 cancer survivors in the sample, 66% (N = 378) reported that they had never heard of PC, 18% (N = 112) reported knowing a little bit about PC, and 17% (N = 95) reported knowing what PC is and could explain it to someone else. In multivariable analysis, survivors of color (Hispanic/Latino, Black, Asian, American Indian, and Pacific Islander), males, and those less educated were significantly less likely to report knowledge of PC. Among survivors who did report knowledge of PC, a lack of distinction between differing modes of supportive care exists.Significance of resultsThese findings suggest a need to increase PC knowledge among cancer survivors with the ultimate goal of addressing disparities in PC acceptance and utilization.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care
Logistic regression
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
Cancer Survivors
Neoplasms
Survivorship curve
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
General Nursing
Aged
business.industry
Palliative Care
Cancer
General Medicine
Caregiver burden
medicine.disease
Health Information National Trends Survey
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Family medicine
Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
Quality of Life
Pacific islanders
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14789523 and 14789515
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Palliative and Supportive Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fec8672d4a52b2a37ff655372681716b