ArticlePsycho-oncology2015
'We have to discuss it': cancer patients' advance care planning impressions following educational information about cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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- Key challenges in communication across milestones of cancer care continuum: a systematic review.BMC palliative care · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of online advance care planning (ACP) decision aid programmes on adults with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC palliative care · 2026Pooled it
- Family involvement in advance care planning for people living with advanced cancer: A systematic mixed-methods review.Palliative medicine · 2022Pooled it
- The evidence supporting educational videos for patients and caregivers receiving hospice and palliative care: A systematic review.Patient education and counseling · 2020Pooled it
- Advance care planning: A systematic review about experiences of patients with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness.Palliative medicine · 2018Pooled it
- A Randomized Trial of Acceptability and Effects of Values-Based Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Oncology: Person-Centered Oncologic Care and Choices.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2018Trial
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- Multi Components in the Implementation of Advanced Care Planning for Patients with Cancer: A Scoping Review.Journal of caring sciences · 2025Review
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- Psychometric properties of Persian version of advance care planning questionnaire among older adults in Iran.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Advance Care Planning in Serious Illness: A Narrative Review.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2023Review
- Navigating a newly diagnosed cancer through clinician-facilitated discussions of health-related patient values: a qualitative analysis.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- The Role of Recipient Characteristics in Health Video Communication Outcomes: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- 'It's not magic': A qualitative analysis of geriatric physicians' explanations of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in hospital admissions.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
- Reflections of Hospice Staff Members About Educating Hospice Family Caregivers Through Telenovela.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2021Article
- When do Physicians and Nurses Start Communication about Advance Care Planning? A Qualitative Study at an Acute Care Hospital in Japan.Asian bioethics review · 2020Article
- A mixed methods analysis of patients' advance care planning values in outpatient oncology: Person-Centered Oncologic Care and Choices (P-COCC).Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020Article
- A comparative study on decision and documentation of refraining from resuscitation in two medical home care units in Sweden.BMC palliative care · 2019Article
- Giving Voice to Patient Values Throughout Cancer: A Novel Nurse-Led Intervention.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveMost cancer patients desire information about care options at the end of life, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Communicating such care options can be challenging and is part of advance care planning (ACP). Our prior studies with video educational media produced data on patients' categoric preferences (yes/no/unsure) for CPR; however, the thematic underpinnings of these educated preferences in patients treated for advanced cancer aren't well known.
methodsQualitative thematic content analysis of participants' responses in a randomized trial of an educational video (V) or narrative (N) about CPR in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancers. Responses were independently coded and categorized for thematic content by two reviewers.
resultsOf 54 study participants, 26 total (41% of V arm, 56% of N arm) articulated questions, comments, or both. Reviewer analyses demonstrated thematic consensus and resulted in seven distinct themes listed in decreasing order of prevalence: (a) ACP should be started early; (b) educational information about CPR affirmed participants' existing beliefs/knowledge/values about advanced illness; (c) participants were apprehensive about ACP but wanted to discuss it; (d) gaps in knowledge about ACP emerged; (e) CPR information was helpful/acceptable; (f) physicians should be involved in ACP; and (g) medical questions about critical illness arose.
conclusionsFindings identified that while sometimes difficult to discuss, advance care planning is desired, deemed helpful, and ideally begun early by clinicians, and that video education is an appropriate and affirming initiator of discussions. These themes are incorporated into our ongoing research on cancer patient-specific values and education about care options.
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