Patients' Individualized Care Perceptions and Health Literacy Using an Interactive App During Breast and Prostate Cancer Treatment: Two Parallel Randomized Controlled Trials.

The use of symptom management mobile apps can reduce patients' symptom burden during cancer treatment, but the evidence is lacking about their effect on care. Moreover, if patients' health literacy can be improved, it needs to be more rigorously tested. This study aimed to evaluate patients' perceptions of individualized care and health literacy using an interactive app in two randomized trials.

Sexual Satisfaction and Associated Biopsychosocial Factors in Stroke Patients Admitted to Specialized Cognitive Rehabilitation.

Introduction: The consequences of stroke on sexual life in stroke patients in need of specialized cognitive rehabilitation have been limited explored. A biopsychosocial perspective in post-stroke sexuality studies is warranted to capture the complex picture of stroke consequences and sexual life after stroke and sexual satisfaction is an important outcome measure when exploring such multifactorial associations.

Aim: To explore sexual satisfaction and associated biopsychosocial factors in stroke patients admitted to specialized cognitive rehabilitation.

Closeness and life satisfaction after six years for persons with stroke and spouses.

Objective: To explore long-term experiences of satisfaction with life in persons with stroke and spouses.

Design: This prospective cohort-study collected data on life satisfaction 1 and 6 years after stroke using the Life Satisfaction Checklist; focusing on "Life as a whole" and the domain "Closeness" ("Family life", "Partner relationship", "Sexual life"). Open-ended questions were added to illustrate changes in daily life.

Sexual health policies in stroke rehabilitation: A multi national study.

Objective: To identify and explore sexual health policies at specialized stroke rehabilitation centres in relation to the perspectives of healthcare personnel concerning sexual health.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Subjects: Nine specialized rehabilitation centres representing 7 countries, and healthcare personnel (n = 323) working with stroke rehabilitation at the 9 centres were included in the study.

Sickness absence following breast cancer surgery: a two-year follow-up cohort study.

Rationale And Aim: Most women of working ages with limited breast cancer (BC) have returned to work within the first year after diagnosis. However, little is known about what is happening during this year regarding sickness absence and return to work. Also, the knowledge is very limited about the occurrence of part-time sickness absence after BC diagnosis.

Experiences of Sexuality Six Years After Stroke: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Little is known about the long-term consequences of stroke on sexuality, and studies on how individuals with stroke communicate with health care professionals about information and/or interventions on sexuality are even sparser.

Aim: To explore experiences of sexuality 6 years after stroke, including communication with health care professionals concerning sexuality.

Methods: This qualitative study was based on data collected by semistructured interviews with 12 informants 43 to 81 years old 6 years after stroke.

Can breast cancer register data on recommended adjuvant treatment be used as a proxy for actually given treatment?

Purposes: To study agreement between recommended adjuvant treatment after primary breast cancer (BC) surgery from the clinical based National Breast Cancer Register and initiated adjuvant treatment from medical records; factors associated with agreement; and reasons for discontinuation or change of planned treatment.

Method: Included were 970 women who had undergone BC surgery, aged 20-63 years, living in Stockholm County, and literate in Swedish.

Exclusion Criteria: Distant metastases, pre-surgical chemotherapy, and/or a previous BC diagnosis.

A study to examine the influence of health professionals' advice and support on work capacity and sick leave after breast cancer surgery.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate how women, shortly after breast cancer surgery, experienced encounters with, and information from, healthcare professionals regarding work and sick leave and if these experiences were associated with self-reported work capacity and sick leave.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study based on questionnaire data from 605 women who had had breast cancer surgery, aged 20-63 years. Exclusion criteria were known distant metastases, pre surgical therapy, and/or previous breast cancer.

Adjustment and social support at work early after breast cancer surgery and its associations with sickness absence.

Introduction: As half of the women with breast cancer are of working ages and usually survive, knowledge is needed on how to support them early regarding work-related problems caused by treatments. Most previous studies have focused on individual and disease-related factors, whereas few have focused on work-related factors such as work adjustment and social support. The aim of this study was to investigate received and perceived social support from supervisor and colleagues as well as work adjustments, and their associations with sickness absence, among women who recently had had breast cancer surgery.

Sickness absence in relation to breast and arm symptoms shortly after breast cancer surgery.

Purpose: To determine whether and, to what extent, breast and arm symptoms are associated with sick leave (SL) shortly after breast cancer (BC) surgery, and to investigate the associations of these symptoms and different surgical procedures with SL, adjusting for age and work posture. Women (n = 511), aged 26-63 years, who worked ≥ 75% before a BC diagnosis, were included within 12 weeks of surgery.

Results: 31% reported breast symptoms and 22% arm symptoms; and, of these, 47% reported both.

How do women value work shortly after breast cancer surgery and are their valuations associated with being on sick leave?

Purpose: To investigate how working women, in different age and educational groups who have recently had breast cancer surgery, value work (in terms of importance, satisfaction, and dedication), and whether their valuations are associated with sick leave.

Method: This cross-sectional study investigated the value of work and its relation to sickness absence among women in Sweden who had had breast cancer surgery, were aged 20-63 years, and worked before diagnosis (n = 605). A questionnaire was distributed at inclusion, about 4-8 weeks after surgery.

Arm morbidity and sick leave among working women shortly after breast cancer surgery.

Background: There is limited knowledge about the impact of arm morbidity on sick leave in the immediate period after breast cancer surgery.

Purpose: To determine if arm morbidity was associated with sick leave shortly after breast cancer surgery and to investigate the association between arm morbidity and sick leave, adjusted for treatment, work characteristics, co-morbidity, time since surgery, and sociodemographic factors.

Sample And Methods: Included were 511 women who within 12 weeks had had breast cancer surgery, were aged 20-63 years, had no distant metastasis, pre-surgical chemotherapy, or previous breast cancer, and worked ≥75% before breast cancer diagnosis.