Control beliefs as mediators between education and quality of life in patients with breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer: a large register based study.

Objective: Control beliefs have been found to influence adaption to a cancer diagnosis. This study explored interrelationships among education, control beliefs, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer and tested weather control beliefs act as mediators.

Methods: Six hundred and five patients with breast (n = 205), prostate (n = 205), colorectal (n = 124), and lung (n = 71) cancer from two German cancer registries answered standardized questionnaires.

Patients' Reflections on Treatment Decision After Surgery for Laryngeal Cancer.

Importance: Clinicians should understand how patients who were treated with laryngeal cancer surgery think about this later on and what factors may be related with regretting surgery.

Objective: To assess variables associated with a positive attitude toward laryngeal cancer surgery.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This combination of 2 cohorts, based on patient interviews and questionnaires, was studied in 16 hospitals in Germany.

Learners' characteristics and the mastery of digital education during the COVID-19 pandemic in students of a medical faculty in Germany.

Background: In response to the spread of the coronavirus, educational institutions have been closed and digital education has become a new teaching method to ensure the continuity of medical education. Since this format was a new form of learning for students at medical faculties in Germany, little is known about the perception of it and the factors that contribute to successful mastery. The current study aimed to analyze students' learning experiences during the first online semester and to identify associations between learners' characteristics and enjoyment, mastery experiences, as well as the perceived stress level.

Course of social support and associations with distress after partial laryngectomy.

Purpose: Social support has been shown to be positively associated with quality of life and adjustment after a cancer diagnosis. The present study investigates the course of social support up to one year after partial laryngectomy and its association with distress.

Design: Longitudinal questionnaire study.

Food practices and nutrition of children and adolescents in residential care: A scoping review.

Food practices of children and adolescents have thus far been researched mainly regarding families and schools. However, there are children and adolescents who live outside of their families of origin in various forms of residential accommodation together with other young people and staff. It can be assumed that food practices and eating habits are central and challenging topics in everyday life in these institutions.

Predictors of psychiatric comorbidity in cancer patients at the time of their discharge from the hospital.

Purpose: A cancer diagnosis can have a substantial impact on one's mental health. The present study investigated the prevalence and predictors of psychiatric comorbidities in cancer patients at the time of their discharge from the hospital.

Methods: Psychiatric comorbidities were assessed shortly before hospital discharge and half a year after hospitalization using a structured clinical interview (SCID), based on the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV).

Socioeconomic inequalities in primary-care and specialist physician visits: a systematic review.

Background: Utilization of primary-care and specialist physicians seems to be associated differently with socioeconomic status (SES). This review aims to summarize and compare the evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in consulting primary-care or specialist physicians in the general adult population in high-income countries.

Methods: We carried out a systematic search across the most relevant databases (Web of Science, Medline) and included all studies, published since 2004, reporting associations between SES and utilization of primary-care and/or specialist physicians.

'It was a big monetary cut'-A qualitative study on financial toxicity analysing patients' experiences with cancer costs in Germany.

Receiving information about expected costs promptly after a cancer diagnosis through psycho-oncology care or social counselling is crucial for patients to be prepared for the financial impact. Nevertheless, less is known about financial impacts for cancer patients in countries with statutory health insurance. This study aims to explore the full scope of costs that constitute the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis in Germany and to identify the reasons for high financial decline.

Structured multi-disciplinary psychosocial care for cancer patients and the perceived quality of care from the patient perspective: a cluster-randomized trial.

Purpose: We examined whether multi-disciplinary stepped psychosocial care for cancer patients improves quality of care from the patient perspective.

Methods: In a university hospital, wards were randomly allocated to either stepped or standard care. Stepped care comprised screening for distress, consultation between doctor and patient, and the provision of psychosocial services.

[Why Me? - Causal Attributions and their Relation to Socio-Economic Status and Stigmatization in Breast, Colon, Prostate and Lung Cancer Patients].

Background: Causal attributions can result in self-incrimination and psychosocial burden. Therefore, the present study assessed assumptions about subjective causes of cancer and examines their relationships with social factors and perceived stigmatization.

Methods: In a bicentric study, 858 patients with breast, colon, prostate or lung cancer were given standardized questionnaires.

Development and psychometric testing of an instrument for measuring social participation of adolescents: study protocol of a prospective mixed-methods study.

Introduction: Social participation is an important part of a young person's life. It influences the social experience, social-emotional development and dimensions of competence experience. This applies to people with or without physical disabilities or chronic diseases.

The association of socioeconomic status with quality of life in cancer patients over a 6-month period using individual growth models.

Purpose: Studies examining longitudinal associations between socioeconomic factors and quality of life (QoL) in cancer patients are rare. This study investigates changes in QoL over a 6-month period.

Methods: Four hundred forty-two cancer patients (mean age 64, SD = 11, 70% male) completed standardized questionnaires at the beginning (t1) and end (t2) of their hospital stay and 3 (t3) and 6 months (t4) thereafter.

Psychiatric co-morbidity, distress, and use of psycho-social services in adult glioma patients-a prospective study.

Background: Distress impacts the daily life of glioma patients. This study explored its course over time and the usage of psychosocial care.

Methods: A consecutive sample of glioma patients completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale to assess distress levels at admission to the hospital (t1), before discharge (t2), after 3 months (t3), and after 6 months (t4).

The effects of multi-disciplinary psycho-social care on socio-economic problems in cancer patients: a cluster-randomized trial.

Purpose: We examined whether multi-disciplinary stepped psycho-social care decreases financial problems and improves return-to-work in cancer patients.

Methods: In a university hospital, wards were randomly allocated to either stepped or standard care. Stepped care comprised screening for financial problems, consultation between doctor and patient, and the provision of social service.

Effects of stepped psychooncological care on referral to psychosocial services and emotional well-being in cancer patients: A cluster-randomized phase III trial.

Objective: Emotional distress in cancer patients often goes unnoticed in daily routine; therefore, distress screening is now recommended in many national guidelines. However, screening alone does not necessarily translate into better well-being. We examined whether stepped psychooncological care improves referral to consultation-liaison (CL) services and improves well-being.

Factors associated with non-participation and dropout among cancer patients in a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

We investigated the impact of demographic and disease related factors on non-participation and dropout in a cluster-randomised behavioural trial in cancer patients with measurements taken between hospitalisation and 6 months thereafter. The percentages of non-participation and dropout were documented at each time point. Factors considered to be potentially related with non-participation and dropout were as follows: age, sex, marital status, education, income, employment status, tumour site and stage of disease.

[Social counseling in outpatient cancer counseling centers : Offers and use by advice-seekers].

Background: Outpatient psychosocial cancer care has gained importance in recent years and psychosocial counselling services (PCS) offer a broad spectrum of counselling interventions. Yet there is no published research on PCS legal counselling services. This study investigated the range of issues addressed by legal counselling and their relationship with characteristics of advice seekers and counsellors.

Impact of socio-economic position on cancer stage at presentation: Findings from a large hospital-based study in Germany.

We explored the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and cancer stage at presentation. Patients admitted to a university hospital for diagnosis and treatment of cancer provided data on their education, vocational training, income, employment, job, health insurance and postcode. Tumor stage was classified according to the Union International Contre le Cancer (UICC).

[Social integration and its relevance for quality of life after laryngectomy].

Background: Social networks and social participation generally have positive effects on health. Yet, little is known about how patients after total laryngectomy (TLE) are integrated into the society. Aim of this study was to investigate how patients are socially integrated after a TLE and if social integration is associated with certain areas of quality of life.