- Title
- Development of the palliative care needs assessment tool (PC-NAT) for use by multi-disciplinary health professionals
- Creator
- Waller, A.; Girgis, A.; Currow, D.; Lecathelinais, C.
- Relation
- Palliative Medicine Vol. 22, Issue 8, p. 956-964
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216308098797
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Needs assessment strategies can facilitate prioritisation of resources. To develop a needs assessment tool for use with advanced cancer patients and caregivers, to prompt early intervation. A convenience sample of 103 health professionals viewed three videotaped consultations involving a simulated patient, his/her caregiver and a health professional, completed the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Tool (PC-NAT) and provided feedback on clarity, content and acceptability of the PC-NAT. Face and content validity, acceptability and feasibility of the PC-NAT were confirmed. Kappa scores indicated adequate inter-rater reliability for the majority of domains; the patient spirituality domain and the caregiver physical and family and relationship domains had low reliability. The PC-NAT can be used by health professionals with a range of clinical expertise to identify individuals’ needs, thereby enabling early intervention. Further psychometric testing and an evaluation to assess the impact of the systematic use of the PC-NAT on quality of life, unmet needs and service utilisation of patients and caregivers are underway.
- Subject
- cancer; palliative care; needs assessment; patient; caregiver
- Identifier
- uon:5011
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42871
- Identifier
- ISSN:0269-2163
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