Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28204993›Full record

ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2017

Needs of neuro-oncological patients and their caregivers during the hospitalization and after discharge: results from a longitudinal study.

C Scaratti, M Leonardi, A Saladino, E Anghileri, M Broggi, E Lamperti, L Fariselli, R Ayadi, G Tringali, S Schiavolin

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Supportive care needs and service use during palliative care in family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer: a prospective longitudinal study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

C ScarattiNeurology, Public Health and Disability Unit, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy.
M LeonardiNeurology, Public Health and Disability Unit, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy.
A SaladinoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy.
E AnghileriUnit of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy.
M BroggiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy.
E LampertiDepartment of Neuroncology, Unit of Neurology II, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy.
L FariselliNeurosurgery Department, Radiotherapy Unit, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy.
R AyadiNeurology, Public Health and Disability Unit, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy.
G TringaliDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Milan, Italy.
S SchiavolinNeurology, Public Health and Disability Unit, Neurological Institute C. Besta IRCCS Foundation, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy. silvia.schiavolin@istituto-besta.it.ORCID 0000-0002-5391-7539

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe aims of this study are to identify neuro-oncological patients' and their caregivers' needs during hospitalization (T0) and at 4 months after discharge (T1); to analyze the longitudinal changes in patients' and caregivers' needs and burden; to identify correlations between patients' needs and caregivers' burden and needs.

methodsA pilot observational longitudinal study was conducted on 94 neuro-oncological patients and their caregivers using NEQ to evaluate patients' needs, CNA, and FSQ for caregivers' needs and burden at T0 and T1. Descriptive statistics were performed to illustrate the distribution of questionnaires' scores. The longitudinal change of NEQ, FSQ, and CNA scores were investigated using Wilcoxon test. Spearman's correlation was used to measure the relation between NEQ and FSQ and CNA scores.

resultsThe most frequent patients and caregivers' needs were material and informative. Needs tend to decrease over time; in particular FSQ factor "need for knowledge about the disease", CNA factor "Information/communication needs" and CNA total score significantly decreased (p < 0.001). NEQ total score significantly correlated with FSQ factors "emotional burden" and "need for knowledge about the disease" and CNA total and factors scores at T0 and T1. At T0, NEQ correlated significantly with FSQ factor "thoughts about death", while at T1, it correlated with FSQ factor "problems in social involvement".

conclusionsIt is crucial to plan an assessment of patients' and caregivers' needs from the very beginning, in order to identify those individuals potentially at risk of developing high level of distress and to provide information and support following the illness trajectory of the brain tumor.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PsychologicalAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCaregiversCommunicationFemaleHospitalizationHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedPatient DischargePilot ProjectsSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultBurdenCaregiversHome settingHospitalizationNeedsNeuro-oncological patients

Identifiers

PMID28204993

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.