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- Title
Innovations in online assessment of suicidality in patients with cancer: Optimizing safety and feasibility.
- Authors
Kolva, Elissa; Bonnell, Levi; Cox‐Martin, Emily; Cox-Martin, Emily
- Abstract
An online assessment of suicidality in patients with cancer was feasible in a psycho-oncology setting. As of January 2019, there were an estimated 16.9 million American cancer survivors; this number is expected to increase to more than 21 million in the next ten years.[1] With this comes heightened awareness of the impact a cancer diagnosis and its treatment can have on mental health functioning in survivorship. The goal of this paper is to discuss an approach to preserve patient safety while optimizing delivery of an online survey of suicidality in cancer survivors seeking psychological care. Online assessment of suicidality in this sample of adults with heterogeneous cancer diagnoses receiving outpatient psycho-oncology care was feasible and ethically sound.
- Subjects
PSYCHO-oncology; CANCER patients; SUICIDAL behavior; SUICIDAL ideation; SUICIDE; SUICIDE risk factors
- Publication
Psycho-Oncology, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 1, p224
- ISSN
1057-9249
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1002/pon.5249