Assessment of a Structured Self-Management Support Intervention by Nurses for Patients With Incurable Cancer.

Objectives: To gain an understanding of the perceptions of patients with incurable cancer regarding a new nurse-led self-management support intervention with an integrated eHealth application (Oncokompas) and its potential effectiveness.

Sample & Setting: 36 patients receiving support in the home setting.

Methods & Variables: A pre- and post-test mixed-methods design was used with a period of 12 weeks between the tests and qualitative interviews.

A nurse-led self-management support intervention for patients and informal caregivers facing incurable cancer: A feasibility study from the perspective of nurses.

Purpose: Investigation of the feasibility of recruitment through nurses of patients with incurable cancer, and the feasibility (adoption, usage) and nurses' evaluation of a nurse-led self-management support intervention, integrated in continuity home visits and based on the 5 A's Behavior Change Model.

Method: Questionnaire, registrations, evaluation forms, and interviews.

Results: Recruitment was complicated; many patients were ineligible for participation, nurses appeared protective of their patients (gatekeeping), and recruitment during the first continuity home visit appeared to be a barrier as a lot of other issues had to be discussed.

[Increase in reporting of child deaths; analysis of recent forensic services data].

Objective: We investigated the degree of reporting of child deaths in 2017 and compared this with data from 2012. Furthermore, we assessed the characteristics of these deaths and in how many cases the forensic doctor performed a post-mortem examination.

Design: Observational research.

Self-Management Support in Patients With Incurable Cancer: How Confident Are Nurses?

Objectives: To explore how nurses perceive their self-efficacy and performance in supporting self-management among patients with incurable cancer, and whether these perceptions differ between community and hospital nurses.

Sample & Setting: 222 hospital nurses (n = 94) and community nurses (n = 128) working with adult patients with incurable cancer.

Methods & Variables: An online survey included the Self-Efficacy and Performance Into Self-Management Support instrument.

Self-management support and eHealth for patients and informal caregivers confronted with advanced cancer: an online focus group study among nurses.

Background: Self-management by patients and informal caregivers confronted with advanced cancer is not self-evident. Therefore they might need self-management support from nurses. This article reports on nurses' perspectives on self-management support for people confronted with advanced cancer, and nurses' experiences with eHealth in this context.

Effects of eHealth for patients and informal caregivers confronted with cancer: A meta-review.

Background: eHealth can be defined as information provision about illness or health care and/or support for patients and/or informal caregivers, using the computer or related technologies. eHealth interventions are increasingly being used in cancer care, e.g.