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Psycho-oncology (UK) Information & Help Resources for organizations, health professionals, patients and families relating to psychological aspects of cancer care
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Last update Feb10 |
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Psycho-oncology refers to the psychological aspects of cancer care. For healthcare professionals this essentially means finding the best ways to detect, measure and treat psychological distress. For patients and families this usually means accessing the most appropriate forms of help for emotional disorders. This site was designed to offer some of the useful resources that we have developed locally in Leicester (UK). Please be aware we cannot offer individual clinical advice via the website - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Patient Narratives [now out!] We are very excited to launch a comprehensive directory of therapeutic patient narratives specifically for cancer courtesy of www.healthtalkonline.org. Sorry for the long delay here.
A collection of resources (internal and external) on psycho-oncology topics. The internal links are a brand new series of practical guidelines on psychosocial topics for you to download free of charge.
A brief section of resources for those interested in our local service in Leicester (eg referral forms). Includes new information on our network screening programme (link) and our chemotherapy screening programme (link)
This section describes our newly developed refinement of the well known "Distress Thermometer" for use by health professionals. The ET has been validated in cancer settings and now also in cardiovascular and neurological settings
Here we list some of the tools adapted for cancer care such as the Hospital Depression and Anxiety Scale (simplified) and the Illness Perception Questionnaire, copyright permitting. Interested in validated tools? Download a spreadsheet of scales that have been validated in cancer settings [New]
Join free discussions on psycho-oncology aimed at health professionals via facebook (no subscription needed) or at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/psycho-oncology (subscription required for email access)
A summary of recent local educational conferences and summary of national conferences. We also have an index of previous IPOS conference abstracts here [New]
Slide Shows [Updated] A collection of our presentations (powerpoint/pdf=>flash converted) on recent topics of interest. See new slideset on identification of distress by cancer clinicians
Evidence [Updated] A collection of evidence supporting the case for psycho-oncology services nationally and internationally. Download a large spreadsheet of all psychosocial trials 1979-2005 (from Moyer et al 2009) [New]
A summary of most UK based evidence based medicine guidelines relevant to mental health
Literature Searches [Updated] A convenient way to keep up-to-date with the world psycho-oncology literature....use our searches & let us do the hard work!
Our selected highlights of world psycho-oncology literature presented in free full text PDF
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Facebook [New] Psycho-oncology news and discussions new to facebook from....link to preview.
10 questions about this site and online psycho-oncology resources in general....thanks for your feedback so far
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