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- Title
Unmet supportive care needs in Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors: prevalence and associations with patient-provider communication, satisfaction with cancer care, and symptom burden.
- Authors
Moreno, Patricia I.; Ramirez, Amelie G.; San Miguel-Majors, Sandra L.; Castillo, Leopoldo; Fox, Rina S.; Gallion, Kipling J.; Munoz, Edgar; Estabrook, Ryne; Perez, Arely; Lad, Thomas; Hollowell, Courtney; Penedo, Frank J.
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>The aim of this study was to elucidate the prevalence of unmet supportive care needs in Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors and examine the association between unmet needs and patient-provider communication, satisfaction with cancer care, and cancer-specific symptom burden.<bold>Methods: </bold>Hispanics/Latinos diagnosed with breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer within 15 months of treatment completion (n = 288) completed questionnaires as part of an NCI-funded project.<bold>Results: </bold>Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors reported greater unmet needs compared to previously published norms in primarily non-Hispanic/Latino white samples. Across the three cancer types, the two most common unmet needs were in the psychological domain: fear of metastasis (32.6%) and concern for close others (31.3%). However, unmet needs varied by cancer type. Factors associated with greater unmet needs included more recent cancer diagnosis (OR .98 [.96-.99]), younger age (OR .96-.97 [.93-.99]), female gender (OR 2.53-3.75 [1.53-7.36]), and being single (OR 1.82 [1.11-2.97]). Breast cancer survivors reported greater unmet needs than both prostate and colorectal cancer survivors (OR 2.33-5.86 [1.27-14.01]). Adjusting for sociodemographic and medical covariates, unmet needs were associated with lower patient-provider communication self-efficacy (B = - .18-- .22, p's < .01) and satisfaction with cancer care (B = - 3.57-- 3.81, p's < .05), and greater breast (B = - 4.18-- 8.30, p's < .01) and prostate (B = - 6.01-- 8.13, p's < .01) cancer-specific symptom burden.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Findings document unmet supportive care needs in Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors and suggest that reducing unmet needs in Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors may improve not only satisfaction with care, but also health-related quality of life.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANCER patients; SATISFACTION; MENTAL health; QUALITY of life; CONTINUUM of care; HEALTH services accessibility; HEALTH status indicators; PSYCHOLOGY of Hispanic Americans; PATIENT-professional relations; PATIENT satisfaction; RESEARCH funding; SURVEYS; DISEASE prevalence
- Publication
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2019, Vol 27, Issue 4, p1383
- ISSN
0941-4355
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00520-018-4426-4