Psychosocial Information Requirements for Multimorbid Breast Cancer Patients in Breast Centres in North Rhine Westphalia.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The importance of breast cancer patients (BPs) being supplied with sufficient information is well known. This study investigated the unfulfilled psychosocial information requirements of multimorbid BPs. Methods: This study records the unfulfilled psychosocial information requirements of 4166 patients, who were treated at one of the fifty breast centres in North Rhine Westphalia. The Cologne patient questionnaire for breast cancer 2.0 included in the postal survey following hospital stays records the information requirements using an adapted version of the "Cancer patient information needs" scale. Through a univariate analysis using the χ² test, it was investigated whether multimorbid BPs had significantly different psychosocial information requirement

SUBMITTER: Schmitz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4520993 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature