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Investigators at University of Bristol Discuss Research in Psychooncology

2013 JAN 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week -- Investigators publish new report on Psychooncology. According to news reporting originating in Bristol, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "Originally devised in the USA, the Distress Thermometer is being deployed in many cancer settings in the UK. It is commonly used with a Problem List (PL), which has never been validated with a UK population."

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Bristol, "This study aimed to refine the PL items based upon the concerns of a sample of UK patients attending a regional cancer centre. Existing versions of the PL were scrutinised by a focus group comprising five ex-patients, six health care staff and two academics. This group considered the intelligibility, ambiguity and redundancy of items, sometimes making alternative suggestions or pooling items. The resulting 46 candidate items were sent to 735 patients with mixed cancer, asking them to endorse items that had been a source of concern or distress during their recently finished treatment. We used multivariate logistic regression to evaluate the association between the prevalence of problems and patient characteristics. In this study, 395 (53%) people responded. Fatigue, exhaustion or extreme tiredness (70%), worry, fear or anxiety (45%) and sleep problems (38%) were the most frequently endorsed items. Items not appearing on the original PL were commonly endorsed such as memory or concentration (30%) and loneliness or isolation (15%), suggesting that they should be routinely included in the Distress Thermometer Problem List. The current study offers a more comprehensive PL, on the basis of actual patients' concerns, using words that are understood by UK patients."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "The reluctance of some patients to volunteer their concerns suggests that screening for distress should be undertaken within the context of a structured conversation."

For more information on this research see: Refinement of the Distress Management Problem List as the basis for a holistic therapeutic conversation among UK patients with cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 2012;21(12):1346-1356. Psycho-Oncology can be contacted at: Wiley-Blackwell, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Psycho-Oncology - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1611)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J. Brennan, University of Bristol, Sch Social & Community Med, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom.

Keywords for this news article include: Europe, Cancer, Bristol, Therapy, United Kingdom, Psychooncology

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