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The association between patients’ perceived continuity of care and beliefs about oral anticancer treatment

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Purpose

To explore factors associated with necessity beliefs and concerns among patients receiving oral anticancer therapy (OACT) and, specifically, to examine the relationship between continuity of care (COC) and patients’ beliefs about OACT.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted among patients from four oncology centers receiving OACT (either targeted, hormonal, or chemotherapy). Two months after OACT initiation, patients were asked to participate in a face-to-face or telephone survey. The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire was used to examine patients’ perceptions of their personal necessity for OACT and concerns about potential adverse effects. The Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire was used to assess patients’ perceived COC. Data on clinical characteristics were collected from medical records.

Results

Participants’ beliefs about OACT necessity (n = 91) were found to be associated with COC within the oncology team, and with COC between the oncology specialist and the primary care physicians (β = 0.27, p = 0.003; β = 0.22, p = 0.02, respectively), beyond age, depression, and cancer type (ΔR2 = 0.14, p < 0.001). Additionally, the difference between participants’ beliefs about OACT necessity and their OACT-related concerns was associated with COC within the oncology team (β = 0.30, p = 0.001), beyond age, income, family status, and cancer type (ΔR2 = 0.09, p = 0.001).

Conclusions

This study shows that cancer patients’ perceptions about the COC between care providers are related to their beliefs about OACT necessity, thus providing evidence for the importance of health care delivery approaches that support COC within the oncology team and between the oncology specialist and the primary care physician.

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Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to patients who participated in this study and made this research possible.

Funding

This study was supported by grants from the Israel Cancer Association (grant no. (20140089, the National Institute for Health Policy Research (IL) (grant no. (2015/84, and Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research (grant no.28/2016).

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  1. The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel

    Orit Cohen Castel, Efrat Shadmi & Efrat Dagan

  2. School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel

    Lital Keinan–Boker

  3. Davidoff Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, 39 Jabotinski St, Petah Tikva, Israel

    Tal Granot

  4. Department of Family Medicine, Clalit Health Services, Haifa & Western Galilee District, Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 6 Hashachaf Street, Haifa, Israel

    Khaled Karkabi

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Cohen Castel, O., Shadmi, E., Keinan–Boker, L. et al. The association between patients’ perceived continuity of care and beliefs about oral anticancer treatment. Support Care Cancer 27, 3545–3553 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-019-04668-6

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