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- Title
Barriers to active self-management following treatment for head and neck cancer: Survivors' perspectives.
- Authors
Dunne, Simon; Coffey, Laura; Sharp, Linda; Timmons, Aileen; Desmond, Deirdre; Gooberman‐Hill, Rachael; O'Sullivan, Eleanor; Keogh, Ivan; Timon, Conrad; Gallagher, Pamela; Gooberman-Hill, Rachael; O'Sullivan, Eleanor
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>Active self-management practices may help head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors to deal with challenges to their physical, functional, social, and psychological well-being presented by HNC and its treatment. This study investigates the factors perceived by HNC survivors to act as barriers to their active self-management following primary treatment.<bold>Methods: </bold>In this qualitative study, 27 HNC survivors identified through 4 designated cancer centres in Ireland participated in face-to-face semistructured interviews. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using thematic analysis.<bold>Results: </bold>Four themes (and associated subthemes) describing barriers to survivors' active self-management were identified: emotional barriers (eg, fear of recurrence), symptom-related barriers (eg, loss of taste), structural barriers (eg, access to appropriate health services), and self-evaluative barriers (eg, interpersonal self-evaluative concerns).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>This is the first study to describe HNC survivors' views about barriers to their active self-management after treatment. The findings have important implications for self-management research and intervention development concerning HNC survivorship.
- Subjects
HEAD &; neck cancer patients; HEAD &; neck cancer treatment; SELF-management (Psychology); CANCER patients; CANCER treatment
- Publication
Psycho-Oncology, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 10, p2382
- ISSN
1057-9249
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/pon.4835