Predictors of Survivorship Care Plan Delivery among Professional Nurses in Provincial Cancer Center
Keywords:
cancer survivors, confdence in care delivery, perceived responsibility, professional nurses, survivorship care plansAbstract
Abstract:
Objective: To study predictors of survivorship care plans (SCPs) delivery among professional
nurses in a provincial cancer center in central region of Thailand.
Design: Predictive correlational research
Methodology: A sample was 94 professional nurses who had delivered SCPs to cancer survivors.
Data were collected using perceived responsibility to survivorship care, confdence in survivorship
care delivery, perceived barrier for optimal survivorship care, and SCPs delivery questionnaires
developed by researcher from collaborative projects between countries in Asia-Pacifc regions “The
STEP Study”. A statistical analysis was conducted using Stepwise Linear Regression.
Results: Professional nurses providing cancer survivors care had average age of 36.53 years
(SD = 5.14) with average working experience of 12.20 years (SD = 5.62). Most of them graduated
with bachelor degree (89%) and recieved oncology specialty training (75%). Findings revealed a
high perceived responsibility to survivorship care (Mean = 116.08, SD = 15.97), moderate
confdence in delivery service (Mean = 178.75, SD = 44.85), moderate perceived barrier for
optimal survivorship care (Mean = 35.85, SD = 8.72), and moderate frequency of providing
survivorship care concerning SCPs delivery (Mean = 76.30, SD = 17.17). The higher the perceived
responsibility to survivorship care and confdence in delivery service are, the more frequency of
providing survivorship care by professional nurses is (r =.520, r =.679, p < .05). Nurses with
higher educational level were more likely to have more perception of responsibility to survivorship
care (r = .238, p <.05). Only the perception of responsibility to survivorship care and confdence in
delivery service could jointly explained the varience of the frequency of providing survivorship care
concerning SCPs delivery for 48.9% (R2 = .489, F = 5.084, β = .565, .204, p < .05)
Recommendations: The perception of responsibility to survivorship care and confdence in
delivery service should be promoted among professional nurses. Especially, the oncology specialty
training should be offered in order to enhance the competency in cancer survivorship care delivery
for comprehensive service.
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