Needs, expectations and attendance among participants of a cancer wellness centre in Montreal, Quebec.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between needs, expectations, and attendance patterns among users of a cancer wellness centre to better access future programming and improve attendance.

Methods: We interviewed staff from 18 cancer wellness centers in Canada and the United States to assess if our attendance expectations were realistic. Then, from a total sample of non-users in 2008 (n  =  67) and infrequent users (n  =  67) at the Hope & Cope Wellness Centre in Montreal, we randomly selected individuals from each group who registered and never returned (n  =  16), and those who registered and returned 1-3 times (n  =  17).

Providing internet lessons to oncology patients and family members: a shared project.

The paper describes the steps in a pilot study taken to develop and evaluate an Internet intervention for cancer patients and family members. The intervention was a shared project of two hospital departments; a volunteer oncology support service, Hope & Cope, and the Health Services Library. Forty subjects were surveyed on their computer use and interest, and of these, half used the Internet to access health and medical information.

Resource use in women completing treatment for breast cancer.

Objective: To explore resources used by women completing treatment for breast cancer, how they learned about them, and the psychological factors that predicted their use.

Design: A questionnaire on resource use was administered as part of a randomized clinical trial which assessed subjects' psychosocial characteristics and tested the outcomes of a psychosocial intervention.

Setting: Women completing treatment for breast cancer were recruited from the oncology departments of three university-teaching hospitals in Montreal.