Living with melanoma: a study protocol for the design and participatory development of a survivorship care programme for people with metastatic melanoma

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Hörold and colleagues present a protocol for building a survivorship care program. It serves people living with metastatic melanoma, who report unmet needs even as modern treatments extend life. The LeMela project follows the UK Medical Research Council framework and an intervention mapping approach. It builds the program with patients rather than for them.

Phase A combines a scoping review of existing evidence with interviews and focus groups. Those involve survivors, relatives, and health workers. Partners including physicians, psycho-oncologists, nurses, epidemiologists, and health services researchers then merge their knowledge. They use a joint process to shape a theory-based program. Phase B will test whether the program can work, through a pilot study with structure and process review. That will guide whether a full randomized trial is warranted. The project and its short protocol were both pre-registered on the Open Science Framework.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13425023