An e-Learning Intervention for Professionals to Promote Family-Centered Cancer Care When a Significant Caregiver for Children Is at End of Life: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study.

Background: Families are often unsure how best to prepare dependent children for the death of a significant caregiver with a poor cancer prognosis and seek guidance and support from health care teams. Health and social care professionals (hereafter referred to as professionals) often lack educational opportunities to gain the desired knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide family-centered supportive cancer care. e-Learning has positively impacted access and reach, improving educational opportunities in health care.

Experiences and Needs of Carers of Patients With Head and Neck Cancer: A Systematic Review.

Purpose: The needs of head and neck cancer (HNC) carers tends to be poorly addressed as most support systems are directed towards patients. This systematic review synthesises the existing qualitative evidence from carers for adult HNC patients to explore their experiences and needs as a basis to inform the initial development of an item prompt list for HNC carers for use in routine clinical practice.

Methods: Seven electronic databases were searched from their inception until November 2022, supplemented by citation chaining and snowballing.

Maximizing Professional-Led Sexual Well-being Support in Cancer Care: Findings From a Qualitative Process Evaluation Following Healthcare Professionals' Engagement With an eLearning Resource.

Background: Provision of healthcare professional (HP)-led sexual support in cancer care is lacking, perpetuated by barriers including a lack of HP awareness of sexual concerns and strategies to help patients and partners cope. In response, the Maximizing Sexual Wellbeing|Cancer Care eLearning resource (MSW|CC) was developed and demonstrated efficacy in reducing HPs' attitudinal barriers to the provision of sexual support. However, the mechanisms for such change are not yet known.

A qualitative evaluation of a multi-modal cancer prehabilitation programme for colorectal, head and neck and lung cancers patients.

Background: Growing evidence indicates patients' survivorship outcomes can be enhanced through active engagement in a multi-modal cancer prehabilitation programme (MCPP), although this intervention is not uniformly embedded as a standard of care. MCPP aims to optimise patients physiologically and psychologically for cancer treatments, shorten recovery time, reduce complications, promote healthier lifestyles and improve quality of life. South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (SET) developed and evaluated a system-wide collaborative approach to MMCP across three tumour groups (colorectal, lung, head and neck cancer).

Enhancing healthcare professional-led sexual support in cancer care: Acceptability and usability of an eLearning resource and its impact on attitudes towards providing sexual support.

Objective: Barriers to healthcare professional (HP) (HP)-led sexual support in cancer care include lack of knowledge, skills and evidence-based educational interventions, to equip HPs to address sexual challenges faced by patients and partners. Consequently, sexual support is often avoided. This study examined HPs' acceptability and usability of the Maximising Sexual Wellbeing: Cancer Care (MSW|CC) eLearning resource for HPs and evaluated its impact on HPs' sexual attitudes and beliefs to providing sexual support in cancer care.

Adapting and usability testing of an eLearning resource to enhance healthcare professional provision of sexual support across cancer care.

Objectives: To adapt the theory-driven and positively evaluated Maximising Sexual Wellbeing| Prostate Cancer (MSW|PC) eLearning resource to an eLearning resource suitable for health professionals (HPs) working with mixed cancer populations, followed by usability and acceptability testing.

Methods: Guided by Person-Based Approach (PBA) and Biopsychosocial Model, the MSW|PC was adapted by combining evidence from the literature, an expert group (n = 27: patients, partners, and HPs working in cancer care) and the research team. New content was developed relevant for a mixed cancer population.

Factors contributing to burnout and work-life balance in adult oncology nursing: An integrative review.

Purpose: Occupational stress and burnout are highlighted as the most prevalent workplace issues for adult oncology nurses. With today's global nursing workforce shortage; coupled with oncology being an inherently challenging and complex speciality, this clearly indicates the need to understand factors that contribute to burnout in adult oncology nurses and improve work-life balance. The aim of this integrative review is to synthesis the evidence on burnout and work-life balance for adult oncology nurses.

Developing and testing a theory-driven e-learning intervention to equip healthcare professionals to communicate with parents impacted by parental cancer.

Purpose: Parents have a desire and need for instructive support from healthcare professionals on how best to communicate a cancer diagnosis with their dependent children. Healthcare professionals lack confidence to initiate and facilitate parent-child communication, reporting the need for training. To address the evident gap, this paper outlines the planning, development and testing phases of an e-learning intervention, using a person-based approach.

Parents' experience of cancer who have young children: a literature review.

Background: The National Cancer Institute estimates that 24% of adults with cancer are parenting children younger than 18 years. When a parent is diagnosed with cancer, this is a major stressor and often creates multiple problems for families.

Objective: The aim of this article was to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature on the experience of parents with cancer who are caring for young children.

Changes and challenges to patients' lifestyle patterns following treatment for head and neck cancer.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to explore the changes and challenges to patients' lifestyles following treatment for head and neck cancer.

Background: Head and neck cancer affects some of the most basic aspects of daily functioning, such as eating and speaking. There has been a rapid increase in the number of studies on the quality of life for people with head and neck cancer, but most studies have used quantitative methodology.

Providing written information for patients with head and neck cancer.

Nurses in one Northern Ireland hospital asked patients, their relatives and members of the multidisciplinary care team for their input in compiling an information booklet for patients undergoing major surgery for head and neck cancer, with the aim of creating an information source which would be attractive to a range of patients with head and neck cancer.