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| Title |
Need for additional professional psychosocial and spiritual support in patients with advanced diseases in the course of specialist palliative care – a longitudinal observational study
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| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, November 2021
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12904-021-00880-6 |
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| Authors |
Anneke Ullrich, Holger Schulz, Sven Goldbach, Wiebke Hollburg, Annette Rommel, Marten Müller, Denise Kirsch, Katrin Kopplin-Förtsch, Julia Messerer, Louise König, Frank Schulz-Kindermann, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle |
| Abstract |
We investigated the need for additional professional support and associated factors in patients (pts) at initiation and in the course of in- and outpatient specialist palliative care (I-SPC/O-SPC). Pts entering an urban SPC network consecutively completed questionnaires on psychosocial/spiritual problems and support needs within 72 h (T0) as well as within the first 6 weeks (T1) of SPC. Hierarchical linear regression analysis was used to investigate the impact of sociodemographic / disease-related variables, psychological / physical burden, social support, and SPC setting on the extent of support needs. Four hundred twenty-five pts (70 years, 48% female, 91% cancer, 67% O-SPC) answered at T0, and 167 at T1. At T0, main problems related to transportation, usual activities, and dependency (83-89%). At T1, most prevalent problems also related to transportation and usual activities and additionally to light housework (82-86%). At T0, support needs were highest for transportation, light housework, and usual activities (35-41%). Cross-sectional comparisons of SPC settings revealed higher problem scores in O-SPC compared to I-SPC at T0 (p = .039), but not at T1. Support need scores were higher in O-SPC at T0 (p < .001), but lower at T1 (p = .039). Longitudinal analyses showed a decrease of support need scores over time, independent from the SPC setting. At T0, higher distress (p = .047), anxiety/depression (p < .001), physical symptom burden (p < .001) and I-SPC (p < .001) were associated with higher support need scores (at T1: only higher distress, p = .037). Need for additional professional psychosocial/spiritual support was identified in up to 40% of pts. with higher need at the beginning of O-SPC than of I-SPC. During SPC, this need decreased in both settings, but got lower in O-SPC than in I-SPC over time. Support need scores were not only associated with psychological, but also physical burden. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Spain | 1 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 41 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 6 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 15% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 2% |
| Researcher | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 25 | 61% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 5% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 25 | 61% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 November 2021.
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#3,837,924
of 23,310,485 outputs
Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#495
of 1,269 outputs
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#89,996
of 510,292 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#14
of 48 outputs
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