TY - JOUR
T1 - Facilitating survivorship program development for health care providers and administrators
AU - Grant, Marcia
AU - Economou, Denice
AU - Ferrell, Betty
AU - Uman, Gwen
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by NCI-R25 CA 107109 and funded by NIH grant R25 CA107109.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2015/6/26
Y1 - 2015/6/26
N2 - Purpose: This manuscript will describe institutional changes observed through goal analysis that occurred following a multidisciplinary education project, aimed at preparing health care professionals to meet the needs of the growing numbers of cancer survivors. Method: Postcourse evaluations consisted of quantitative questionnaires and follow-up on three goals created by each participating team, during the 3-day educational program. Evaluations were performed 6, 12, and 18 months postcourse for percent of goal achievement. Goals were a priori coded based on the Institute of Medicine’s survivorship care components along with two additional codes related to program development and education. Results: Two hundred and four teams participated over the four yearly courses. A total of 51.6 % of goals were related to program development, 21 % to survivorship care interventions, 20.9 % on educational goals, and only 4.7 % related to coordination of care, 1.4 % on surveillance, and 0.4 % related to prevention-focused goals. Quantitative measures postcourse showed significant changes in comfort and effectiveness in survivorship care in the participating institutions. Conclusion: During the period 2006–2009, health care institutions focused on developing survivorship care programs and educating staff, in an effort to prepare colleagues to provide and coordinate survivorship care, in cancer settings across the country. Implications for cancer survivors: Goal-directed education provided insight into survivorship activities occurring across the nation. Researchers were able to identify survivorship care programs and activities, as well as the barriers to developing these programs. This presented opportunities to discuss possible interventions to improve follow-up care and survivors’ quality of life.
AB - Purpose: This manuscript will describe institutional changes observed through goal analysis that occurred following a multidisciplinary education project, aimed at preparing health care professionals to meet the needs of the growing numbers of cancer survivors. Method: Postcourse evaluations consisted of quantitative questionnaires and follow-up on three goals created by each participating team, during the 3-day educational program. Evaluations were performed 6, 12, and 18 months postcourse for percent of goal achievement. Goals were a priori coded based on the Institute of Medicine’s survivorship care components along with two additional codes related to program development and education. Results: Two hundred and four teams participated over the four yearly courses. A total of 51.6 % of goals were related to program development, 21 % to survivorship care interventions, 20.9 % on educational goals, and only 4.7 % related to coordination of care, 1.4 % on surveillance, and 0.4 % related to prevention-focused goals. Quantitative measures postcourse showed significant changes in comfort and effectiveness in survivorship care in the participating institutions. Conclusion: During the period 2006–2009, health care institutions focused on developing survivorship care programs and educating staff, in an effort to prepare colleagues to provide and coordinate survivorship care, in cancer settings across the country. Implications for cancer survivors: Goal-directed education provided insight into survivorship activities occurring across the nation. Researchers were able to identify survivorship care programs and activities, as well as the barriers to developing these programs. This presented opportunities to discuss possible interventions to improve follow-up care and survivors’ quality of life.
KW - Cancer survivors
KW - Goal-directed care
KW - Integration of care
KW - Nursing education
KW - Self-reported practice changes
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U2 - 10.1007/s11764-014-0397-8
DO - 10.1007/s11764-014-0397-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 25216608
AN - SCOPUS:84930010677
SN - 1932-2259
VL - 9
SP - 180
EP - 187
JO - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
JF - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
IS - 2
M1 - 397
ER -