Self-Management/Patient Activation and Self-Management Support Interventions for Cancer Survivors
A special issue of Current Oncology (ISSN 1718-7729). This special issue belongs to the section "Oncology Nursing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2025 | Viewed by 105
Special Issue Editor
Interests: self-management; patient activation; symptoms; distress; patient reported outcomes; health coaching
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Dear Colleagues,
Globally, there has been increasing enthusiasm for self-management support (SMS) and health coaching interventions to support cancer patients in managing the effects of cancer and of its treatments, in order to optimize their health and survival. Numerous systematic and scoping reviews show the positive effects of self-management support and health coaching interventions on a range of health outcomes. Risk-based survivorship models of care are also emerging, with self-management as a core service across different risk levels. Unfortunately, the embedding of SMS for cancer populations into routine care and training in SMS and health coaching is still in progress, leaving populations of cancer patients vulnerable to worse health outcomes and survival. There is uncertainty about how these interventions can be implemented on a wider scale in diverse, vulnerable, and/or older cancer populations and in the context of the acute, episodic clinical encounters that are typical of cancer care delivery. For this Special Issue, we welcome manuscripts on recent advances in the field of self-management, self-management support, and health coaching for cancer populations and/or carers across all phases of the cancer trajectory, inclusive of trials. We welcome systematic reviews, original research, economic evaluations or cost-effectiveness studies, digital interventions, and implementation studies on this topic.
Prof. Dr. Doris Howell
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-management interventions
- supported self-management
- health coaching
- patient activation
- healthy lifestyle behaviors
- patient activation
- cancer and cancer survivorship
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