Survivorship care planning after participation in communication skills training intervention for a consultation about lymphoma survivorship. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A survivorship care plan refers to a written summary of the treatment received and recommendations regarding surveillance and management of late effects. To provide evaluation of a communication skills training (CST) intervention to enhance the transition of lymphoma survivors to cancer survivorship. Nineteen oncologists specializing in lymphoma treatment were recruited and completed a survivorship CST workshop, and two standardized patient assessments (SPAs), one pretraining and one posttraining. Significant improvements in SPA scores were observed in six of the seven SPA assessment categories: use of survivorship care plan, review of disease and treatment details, long-term effects, potential late effects, specific physician recommendations, and additional health maintenance recommendations. The intervention had significant effects on physicians' uptake of new strategies and skills, as measured through pre- and posttraining SPAs, as well as on the physicians' self-efficacy about having these conversations.

publication date

  • June 2, 2015

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4656222

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84948126788

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s13142-015-0326-z

PubMed ID

  • 26622912

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 5

issue

  • 4