Publications by authors named "Tatenda Masama"
Article Synopsis
- Pain is a significant issue for young children with cancer and their families, often exacerbated by limited management options at home.
- The study aimed to co-design a digital app by exploring parents' views on its usefulness, necessary features, and potential challenges through interviews with parents and healthcare professionals.
- Findings indicated that participants viewed the app as a promising tool to facilitate pain management by providing real-time support and information while highlighting the need for accessible features and potential workload concerns for caregivers and clinicians.
Young children receiving outpatient cancer care are vulnerable to undermanaged pain. App-based solutions that provide pain treatment advice to parents in real-time and in all environments may improve access to quality pain care. We used a parent co-design approach involving iterative rounds of user testing and software modification to develop a usable Pain Caregiver Resource (PainCaRe) real-time pediatric cancer pain management app.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Although the hospital remains the dominant site for delivering most pediatric cancer care, home-based care is increasingly provided. To effectively deliver comprehensive, relevant, and acceptable care in children's homes, the voices of these key informants must be considered. We examined the views of children with cancer, their family caregivers, and clinicians on home-based cancer care to identify necessary strategies to improve the delivery of care.
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