Evaluation of Patient Satisfaction in Men Receiving External Beam Radiation Therapy for a Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
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2015-05
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The Ohio State University
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The objectives of this DNP project were to determine patient satisfaction with current post radiation symptom assessment conducted in the clinic setting and to determine the patient’s willingness to participate in a telephone assessment instead of a clinic visit to assess post radiation treatment symptoms.
Specifically the objectives were to:
1. Evaluate patient satisfaction with the current face to face post symptom assessment
2. Evaluate patient acceptability of the use of telemedicine for post radiation symptom assessment.
A small convenience sample of adult males with a diagnosis of prostate cancer who were receiving radiation therapy at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center were used to explore the feasibility of the survey approach. CITI trained registered nurses surveyed participants. A 17 item cancer patient satisfaction survey (Jean-Pierre, Fiscella, Freund, Clark, Darnell, Holden, Patierno, 2010) was used that included a question to evaluate the acceptability of using telehealth for symptom assessment. The cancer patient satisfaction survey was specifically developed to assess patient satisfaction in oncology patients in an ambulatory setting. After 1.5 months of data collection, there were six surveys completed and all eligible patients participated in the survey, documenting the feasibility of the telehealth survey approach for moving forward with a larger scale practice change. The results of the survey showed that patients were satisfied with current post radiation symptom assessment in the clinic, but would be accepting of post radiation symptom assessment completed via telehealth. This DNP project provides the necessary feasibility data on acceptability of the survey approach and men’s receptivity to a telehealth approach that is necessary as a basis for rolling out a larger-scale change in usual care for post radiation symptom assessment for prostate cancer treatment at the OSUCCC.
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Patient Satisfaction, Prostate Cancer, Radiation Therapy