Sociodemographic and clinical factors related to high rates of unmet supportive care needs among Polish cancer patients.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-14 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1472026

Karolina Osowiecka, Marek Szwiec, Jacek J Nowakowski, Marcin Kurowicki, Anna Dolińska, Anna Gwara, Eliza Działach, Jarosław Kołb-Sielecki, Weronika Radecka, Sergiusz Nawrocki, Monika Rucińska

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Abstract

Introduction: Cancer patients experience a wide range of unmet supportive care needs, which may lead to dissatisfaction with the health care system and poor quality of life. The aims of this study were to assess unmet supportive care needs in five areas: informative needs, psycho-emotional needs, relational needs, material needs and needs related to assistance/care, and to identify groups of cancer patients expressing high rates of unmet needs.

Materials and methods: The multicenter study was carried out among 1,062 cancer patients between June 2022 and May 2023. The study was performed using the validated Polish version of Needs Evaluation Questionnaire (NEQ). The total and subtotal NEQ scores were calculated.

Results: The mean total NEQ score was 0.44 ± 0.27. The highest subtotal NEQ scores were noted in the cases of informative needs and material needs. Predictive factors for a higher total NEQ score were younger age, living with a partner and a diagnosis of digestive system cancers or lung cancer.

Conclusion: Cancer patients expressed some unmet supportive care needs, especially informative needs. Identification of the groups of patients with high rates of unmet supportive care needs will be useful in clinical practice. Younger patients, living with a partner and those suffering from digestive system or lung cancer seem to require special attention.

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波兰癌症患者未满足支持性护理需求的高比例相关的社会人口统计学和临床因素。

导言：癌症患者经历了广泛的未满足的支持性护理需求，这可能导致对医疗保健系统的不满和生活质量差。本研究的目的是评估五个方面未满足的支持性护理需求：信息需求、心理情感需求、关系需求、物质需求和与帮助/护理相关的需求，并确定未满足需求率高的癌症患者群体。材料与方法：该多中心研究在2022年6月至2023年5月期间对1062名癌症患者进行了研究。本研究采用波兰版需求评估问卷（NEQ）进行。计算NEQ总分和小总分。结果：平均NEQ总分为0.44 ± 0.27。在信息需求和物质需求的情况下，NEQ的小计得分最高。NEQ总分较高的预测因素是年龄较小、与伴侣同居以及消化系统癌症或肺癌的诊断。结论：癌症患者表达了一些未满足的支持性护理需求，尤其是信息需求。确定未满足支持性护理需求的高比例患者群体将在临床实践中有用。年轻患者、与伴侣同住的患者以及患有消化系统或肺癌的患者似乎需要特别关注。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

5.30

自引率

13.20%

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7396

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.