Development of Quality of Life in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer Using a Patient Support Smartphone App: Prepost Interventional Study
Line Bentsen, Signe Hanghøj, Maiken Hjerming, Mette Buur Bergmann, Marianne Thycosen, Anette Borup, Camilla Larsen, Helle Pappot, Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso, Petra Hoogendoorn, Samia Amin · 2023
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Teens and young adults with cancer often carry heavy worries alone, and meeting peers is hard when patients are few and spread out. A Danish team built a phone app with patients, holding facts, a symptom tracker, and a peer community. Their 2023 study gave the app to young patients for six weeks and measured quality of life before and after.
Eighty-one people joined across Denmark; most finished the study period. Among those in active treatment, role functioning improved clearly over the six weeks. Pain scores moved in a better direction as well. The study tests whether a shared digital space can support young patients through a lonely stretch of care.
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| CREATOR | Line Bentsen, Signe Hanghøj, Maiken Hjerming, Mette Buur Bergmann, Marianne Thycosen, Anette Borup, Camilla Larsen, Helle Pappot, Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso, Petra Hoogendoorn, Samia Amin |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |