ArticleCancer medicine2023
The many "costs" of transportation: Examining what cancer caregivers experience as transportation obstacles.
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- Multi-site feasibility of a web-based and telephone navigation intervention to connect lung cancer caregivers in community oncology settings with resources: Protocol for the WF-2301CD Caregiver Oncology Needs Evaluation Tool (CONNECT) trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
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- Comprehensive care needs among informal cancer caregivers of patients with advanced cancer in palliative care: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Improving accessibility to radiotherapy services in Cali, Colombia: cross-sectional equity analyses using open data and big data travel times from 2020.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Achieving Equity in Transportation for Radiotherapy.Cureus · 2024Article
- Cancer caregivers are primarily motivated by love and sense of duty.Health psychology research · 2024Article
- The many "costs" of transportation: Examining what cancer caregivers experience as transportation obstacles.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundTransportation has been identified as a specific source of burden for cancer caregivers. This study examined cancer caregivers' subjective experiences and objectives costs associated with transportation over a 6-month period of providing end-of-life care to a family member or friend.
methodsThis was a multi-site longitudinal, prospective cohort study that followed 223 caregiver-patient dyads. Data were collected using biweekly, semi-structured interviews for up to 6 months and collection of all caregiving related receipts. Interviews were coded and analyzed using a comparative, iterative analysis and actual out of pockets costs were described using descriptive statistics.
resultsOver the 6-month study period most caregivers (n = 143; 74%) discussed transportation at one or more timepoints. Average biweekly transportations costs to caregivers were $43.6. Caregivers described (n = 56; 39%) multiple direct and indirect costs of transportation, and 58% (n = 84) discussed the need for transportations services or assistance at the institutional level.
conclusionsCaregivers described the multifaceted costs of transportation they experienced which are in line with previous work. Alongside descriptions of direct costs, caregivers described key opportunity costs, such as personal and work time forgone to transporting patients. Caregivers also made suggestions for institutional and/or civic based solutions to facilitate reliable modes of transportation, rather than individual-level intervention.
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