Publications by authors named "Mihaela Budich"
Article Synopsis
- * It uses an adapted CFIR questionnaire to analyze responses from 31 healthcare professionals, highlighting that while the interventions themselves are seen positively, resource shortages, poor policy integration, and lack of incentives are major obstacles.
- * Recommendations to overcome these barriers include designing patient-focused tools, creating user manuals, conducting workshops, and enhancing communication through interdisciplinary meetings, alongside integrating psychosocial care into public health policies to improve treatment standards.
Objective: In paediatric oncology, little is known about trajectories of illness perceptions and their longitudinal associations with health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate changes in illness perceptions in children and parents over a one-year-period and to investigate predictive value of child's and parent's illness perceptions during acute treatment for child's HRQoL 1 year later.
Methods: N = 65 child-parent-dyads participated in a longitudinal study (retention rate: 80.
Background: This study examines the role of illness perceptions and fear of progression (FoP) in paediatric cancer patients and their parents for patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL), controlling for sociodemographic and medical variables. 4-18-year-old patients in acute treatment or follow-up care and one parent were examined.
Methods: N = 46 patient-parent dyads in acute treatment and n = 84 dyads in follow-up care completed measures on illness perceptions (Illness-Perceptions-Questionnaire for 12-18-year-old patients and parents or as age-adapted puppet interview for 4-11-year-old patients) and FoP (Fear-of-Progression-Questionnaire for 7-18-year-old patients and parents).