| Identifying the psychosocial needs of individuals with cancer. | |
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PMID: 7553448 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The diagnosis and treatment of cancer creates psychosocial needs that patients often find difficult to resolve. Because most need assessments do not reach beyond enumerating needs to examine barriers to needs resolution, existing social supports or patients' service preferences, we set out to develop a needs assessment inventory to meet these objectives. The first step was to identify need categories using a qualitative methodology. The aims of the research presented in this paper are to: (a) compare patients' and professional caregivers' identification of patients' psychosocial needs, (b) establish categories of psychosocial needs, and (c) verify the categories resulting from the analysis of the data. Twenty-seven need categories were identified. There was a lack of congruency between patients and hospital caregivers and between caregivers at the two cancer centres in the frequencies with which the need categories were cited. The incongruence underscores the importance of gathering information from more than one perspective. |
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T Bunston; D Mings |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmières Volume: 27 ISSN: 0844-5621 ISO Abbreviation: Can J Nurs Res Publication Date: 1995 |
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Created Date: 1995-11-09 Completed Date: 1995-11-09 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8910581 Medline TA: Can J Nurs Res Country: CANADA |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 59-79 Citation Subset: N |
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Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Attitude of Health Personnel Attitude to Health Female Health Services Needs and Demand* Humans Male Middle Aged Neoplasms / nursing, psychology* Nursing Assessment* Nursing Methodology Research Nursing Staff, Hospital / psychology |
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