[Burden and need for psychosocial intervention of glioblastoma patients]

Fischbeck, Sabine; Kohlhof, Hendrik; Hardt, Jochen; Hertel, Frank; Wiewrodt, Dorothee (2011). [Burden and need for psychosocial intervention of glioblastoma patients]. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie, 61(12), pp. 518-24. Stuttgart: Thieme 10.1055/s-0031-1292856

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Glioblastoma patients should be provided with a professional health care system that helps reduce their psychosocial burden. The aim of this study was to identify patients in need of psychosocial intervention. In addition, it was examined whether physicians' assessments adequately address the burden patients are under and their need for intervention. During their visit to one of two neurosurgery outpatient departments, n = 49 glioblastoma patients filled out the short version of the Hornheider questionnaire (HFK). Consulting physicians also rated their patients' burdens in a specially adapted version of the questionnaire (HFK-F). The results of the psychometric evaluation with both instruments were satisfactory. The majority of the patients (76 %) were identified as in need of psychosocial intervention. All of them were correctly categorized with the physicians' ratings. Physicians overestimated some aspects of the patients' burden, particularly in regard to their problems with relaxing and fear of living with the illness. The patients' ratings concerning the quality of the information physicians provided and their overall state of health only corresponded with the physicians' ratings in roughly half of the cases.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Further Contribution)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Orthopaedic, Plastic and Hand Surgery (DOPH) > Clinic of Orthopaedic Surgery

UniBE Contributor:

Kohlhof, Hendrik

ISSN:

0937-2032

Publisher:

Thieme

Language:

German

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:22

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:06

Publisher DOI:

10.1055/s-0031-1292856

PubMed ID:

22161798

Web of Science ID:

000298361400006

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/7457 (FactScience: 212720)

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