- Title
- Head and neck cancer patient experience of a new dietitian-delivered health behaviour intervention: 'you know you have to eat to survive'
- Creator
- McCarter, Kristen; Baker, Amanda L.; Forbes, Erin; Britton, Ben; Halpin, Sean A.; Beck, Alison; Carter, Gregory; Wratten, Chris; Bauer, Judith; Wolfenden, Luke; Burchell, Katrina
- Relation
- Supportive Care in Cancer Vol. 26, Issue 7, p. 2167-2175
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-017-4029-5
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore head and neck cancer (HNC) patient experiences of a novel dietitian delivered health behaviour intervention. Methods: This study is a qualitative study which employed semi-structured individual interviews using open and axial coding and then final selective coding to organise the data. Patients with HNC who had participated in a dietitian delivered health behaviour intervention to reduce malnutrition were invited to discuss their experience of this intervention. Individual interviews were conducted, transcribed and analysed using grounded theory. Results: Nine patients participated in the interviews. Four dimensions were identified in the initial coding process: ‘information’, which described patients’ desire for tailored advice during their treatment; ‘challenges of treatment experience’, which described the difficulties related to treatment side effects; ‘key messages: importance of eating and maintaining weight’, which covered perceived integral messages delivered to patients by dietitians; and ‘dietitian’s approach’ describing patient experiences of empathic and compassionate dietitians. Two overarching themes resulted from examining the connections and relationships between these dimensions: ‘survival’, a connection between eating and living; and ‘support’, describing the valued working partnership between dietitian and patient. Conclusions: Dimensions and themes overlapped with the qualitative literature on HNC patient experience of treatment. However, some themes, such as the empowerment of a message linking eating to survival, appeared unique to this study. Patients found this message to be delivered in a supportive manner that motivated change.
- Subject
- head and neck cancer; qualitative; intervention; malnutrition; behaviour change
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407717
- Identifier
- uon:35773
- Identifier
- ISSN:0941-4355
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Language
- eng
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