Physician management of thyroid cancer patients’ worry

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• Alternative Title:
  J Cancer Surviv
• Personal Author:
  Papaleontiou, Maria ; Zebrack, Bradley ; Reyes-Gastelum, David ; Rosko, Andrew J. ; Hawley, Sarah T. ; Hamilton, Ann S. ; Ward, Kevin C.
• Description:
  Purpose:
  
  Understand physician management of thyroid cancer-related worry.
  
  Methods:
  
  Endocrinologists, general surgeons, and otolaryngologists identified by Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) patients were surveyed 2018–2019 [response rate 69% (448/654)] and asked to rate in general their patients’ worry at diagnosis and action they take for worried patients. Multivariable weighted logistic regressions were conducted to determine physician characteristics associated with reporting thyroid cancer as “good cancer” and with encouraging patients to seek help managing worry outside the physician-patient relationship.
  
  Results:
  
  Physicians reported their patients as quite/very worried (65%), somewhat worried (27%) and a little/not worried (8%) at diagnosis.
  
  Conclusion / Implications for cancer survivors:
  
  Physicians perceive patient worry as common and address it with various approaches, with some approaches of unclear benefit. Efforts are needed to develop tailored interventions targeting survivors’ psychosocial needs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anxiety Humans Physician-Patient Relations Physicians Surveys And Questionnaires Thyroid Neoplasms
• Source:
  J Cancer Surviv. 15(3):418-426
• Pubmed ID:
  32939685
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7960572
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  NU58DP006344/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U58 DP003875/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; HHSN261201800015I/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HS024512/HS/AHRQ HHSUnited States/ ; R01 CA201198/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; HHSN261201800003C/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K08 AG049684/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; HHSN261201800015C/CA/NCI NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3834c236a7c7d6da7f3c453a4994c4b8171f9dcbdc7a790b9308b6cdcd13dda0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/104309/cdc_104309_DS1.pdf
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