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The Challenges of Translating an Efficacious Family-based Program for Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers to a Web-based Format
There are over 10 million cancer survivors whose needs for supportive-educative care are not being met. To address their needs, programs of care are needed that can reach more people at a lower cost. This presentation will describe the process and challenges associated with trying to translate a face-to-face, family-based program of care for cancer survivors and their family caregivers to a tailored, web-based program format.
2009-12-17 00:00
2009-12-17 12:00
2009-12-17 13:30
Laurel L. Northouse, PhD, RN, FAAN
Laurel Northouse is the Mary Lou Willard French Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and also Co-director of the Soci-behavioral Program at the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Northouse and her colleagues have conducted a series of randomized clinial trials to test the effects of a family-based intervention (the FOCUS Program) on quality of life and other psychosocial outcomes of cancer survivors and their family caregivers. Currently, they are identifying patients and caregivers at higher risk for emotional distress, examining intervention dose (brief vs. extensive program) on patient and caregiver outcomes, and use of health care resources.
6D15 NIB (new room for 2009)
Upcoming Seminar - December 17th: Laurel Northouse
