An interprofessional palliative care oncology rehabilitation program: effects on function and predictors of program completion
| Autor: | Martin Chasen, Jose Pereira, Neil MacDonald, Debbie Gravelle, Andrea Feldstain |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
palliative care Palliative care Rehabilitation business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Disease progression Alternative medicine Cancer Normal level Disease interprofessional medicine.disease rehabilitation Program completion medicine Physical therapy Original Article business |
| Zdroj: | Current Oncology Volume 20 Issue 6 Pages 1607-309 |
| ISSN: | 1198-0052 |
| Popis: | After treatment, patients with active cancer face a considerable burden from the effects of both the disease and its treatment. The Palliative Rehabilitation Program (prp) is designed to ameliorate disease effects and to improve the patient&rsquo s functioning. The present study evaluated predictors of program completion and changes in functioning, symptoms, and well-being after the program. The program received referrals for 173 patients who had finished anticancer therapy. Of those 173 patients, 116 with advanced cancer were eligible and enrolled in the 8-week interprofessional prp 67 completed it. Measures of physical, nutritional, social, and psychological functioning were evaluated at entry to the program and at completion. Participants experienced significant improvements in physical performance (p < 0.000), nutrition (p = 0.001), symptom severity (p = 0.005 to 0.001), symptom interference with functioning (p = 0.003 to 0.001), fatigue (p = 0.001), and physical endurance, mobility, and balance or function (p = 0.001 to 0.001). Reasons that participants did not complete the prp were disease progression, geographic inaccessibility, being too well (program not challenging enough), death, and personal or unknown reasons. A normal level of C-reactive protein ( |
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