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- Title
Receptivity to a Nurse-Led Symptom Management Intervention Among Highly Symptomatic Patients With Cancer.
- Authors
Wintheiser, Grant A; Ruddy, Kathryn J; Herrin, Jeph; Rahman, Parvez A; Pachman, Deirdre R; Leppin, Aaron L; Rutten, Lila J Finney; Lee, Minji K; Griffin, Joan M; Tofthagen, Cindy; Chlan, Linda L; Ridgeway, Jennifer L; Mitchell, Sandra A; Cheville, Andrea L
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>The symptom burden associated with cancer and its treatment can negatively affect patients' quality of life and survival. Symptom-focused collaborative care model (CCM) interventions can improve outcomes, but only if patients engage with them. We assessed the receptivity of severely symptomatic oncology patients to a remote nurse-led CCM intervention.<bold>Methods: </bold>In a pragmatic, cluster-randomized, stepped-wedge trial conducted as part of the National Cancer Institute IMPACT Consortium (E2C2, NCT03892967), patients receiving cancer care were asked to rate their sleep disturbance, pain, anxiety, emotional distress, fatigue, and limitations in physical function. Patients reporting at least 1 severe symptom (≥7/10) were offered phone consultation with a nurse symptom care manager (RN SCM). Initially, patients had to "opt-in" to receive a call, but the protocol was later modified so they had to "opt-out" if they did not want a call. We assessed the impact of opt-in vs opt-out framing and patient characteristics on receptiveness to RN SCM calls. All statistical tests were 2-sided.<bold>Results: </bold>Of the 1204 symptom assessments (from 864 patients) on which at least 1 severe symptom was documented, 469 (39.0%) indicated receptivity to an RN SCM phone call. The opt-out period (odds ratio [OR] = 1.61, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.12 to 2.32, P = .01), receiving care at a tertiary care center (OR = 3.59, 95% CI = 2.18 to 5.91, P < .001), and having severe pain (OR = 1.80, 95% CI = 1.24 to 2.62, P = .002) were associated with statistically significantly greater willingness to receive a call.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Many severely symptomatic patients were not receptive to an RN SCM phone call. Better understanding of reasons for refusal and strategies for improving patient receptivity are needed.
- Subjects
TUMOR treatment; OCCUPATIONAL roles; RESEARCH; FERRANS &; Powers Quality of Life Index; RESEARCH methodology; EVALUATION research; COMPARATIVE studies; QUALITY of life; NURSES; IMPACT of Event Scale; RESEARCH funding; TUMORS; ANXIETY; PALLIATIVE treatment; DISEASE complications
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2022, Vol 114, Issue 3, p458
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djab172