Publications by authors named "A Flix-Valle"
Background: Action mechanisms of therapeutic alliance in stepped and digital interventions remain unclear.
Aims: (a) To compare the development of therapeutic alliance between psychosocial treatment as usual (PTAU) and a stepped digital intervention designed to prevent distress in cancer patients; (b) to analyse the level of agreement between patients' and therapists' therapeutic alliance ratings; and (c) to explore variables associated with therapeutic alliance in the digital intervention.
Method: A multicentre randomised controlled trial with 184 newly diagnosed breast cancer women was conducted.
Objectives: Breast cancer (BC) impacts the patients' quality of life. Peer support can provide emotional understanding and enhances access to information, social support, coping strategies, and empowerment. Comunitats is an online peer support community app for BC survivors that involves healthcare professionals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Breast cancer often leads to cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI), which includes both objective and subjective cognitive deficits. While psychosocial interventions benefit quality of life and distress reduction, their impact on cognitive deficits is uncertain. This study evaluates the integration of a cognitive module into a digital psychosocial intervention for breast cancer patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTelemedicine With Wearable Technologies in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy (TEL-HEMATO Study): Prospective Noninterventional Single-Center Study.
JMIR Form Res
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- The TEL-HEMATO study focused on helping patients with blood cancers after they received special treatments called HCT and CAR T-cell therapy.
- They used wearable devices like smartwatches to track patients' health and how they're feeling in the first three months after they left the hospital.
- Results showed that most patients did well with tracking things like heart rate and steps, but not everyone remembered to check their temperature, and some had technology issues while using the system.
Background: Receiving a diagnosis of lung cancer is an emotional event, not least because it is usually diagnosed at advanced stages with limited life expectancy. Although evidence-based educational, emotional, and social interventions exist, they reach few patients and usually when it is too late.
Objective: This project will be carried out in a comprehensive center for cancer care and health research, aiming to study the efficacy, costs, and utility of an eHealth ecosystem to meet the psychosocial needs of patients with advanced lung cancer.