ArticleCancer medicine2024
Exploring the perspective of adolescent childhood cancer survivors on follow-up care and their concerns regarding the transition process-A qualitative content analysis.
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- The Impact of Social Determinants on Healthcare Transition Readiness Among Adolescent and Young Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Determinants of transition readiness among adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a systematic review.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Review
- Using the COM-B framework to elucidate facilitators and barriers of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation adherence among elderly lung cancer survivors in China: a qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Preparing Implementation of Transition Readiness Screening: What Do Paediatric Cancer Survivors and Caregivers Want?Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Non-malignant features of cancer predisposition syndromes manifesting in childhood and adolescence: a guide for the general pediatrician.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2025Review
- Identifying concerns and needs in AYA survivors of pediatric cancer: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- "You First Have to Check Out the Doctors": Transition Expectations and Experiences of Survivors After Pediatric Cancer.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder and symptoms in paediatric cancer survivors and their family nucleus: systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression.BJPsych open · 2024Review
- Exploring the perspective of adolescent childhood cancer survivors on follow-up care and their concerns regarding the transition process-A qualitative content analysis.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
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purposeIn Germany, children diagnosed with cancer survive their initial disease in more than 80%, and the majority will become long-term survivors. Around the age of 18, survivors are transferred to adult healthcare. The transition can be a critical period in the process of care at which many childhood cancer survivors discontinue to participate in regular follow-up care. Hence, the objective of the paper was to explore (a) survivors' attitudes towards pediatric follow-up care and (b) their concerns regarding the transition process to draw conclusions for optimizing pediatric care and transition processes.
methodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 adolescent childhood cancer survivors between the ages of 14 and 20. The survivors were recruited via a pediatric oncology department of a university hospital in Germany. Based on the principles of qualitative content analysis, a deductive-inductive method according to Kuckartz was applied.
resultsBased on the interview guide and derived from the exploratory research questions, two key categories were generated: (a) Survivors' attitudes towards pediatric follow-up care, which encompasses all formal and emotional aspects of survivors regarding follow-up care, and (b) their concerns regarding transition from pediatric to adult healthcare, where hindering and facilitating factors for a successful transition occur. Our results show high satisfaction among survivors with follow-up care. Nevertheless, they wish to be more integrated into processes and the organization of their follow-up care. Most adolescent survivors do not feel ready for transition.
conclusionThe integration of survivors into the organization processes and routines, and the promotion of emotional detachment from pediatric health care professionals (HCPs) are important to reduce concerns and uncertainties of adolescent survivors regarding the transition process and to promote subjective readiness for transition. To gain confidence in the adult healthcare, it is crucial to provide tailored education depending on individual requirements and needs and to build trusting relationships between survivors and adult HCPs.
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