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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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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 useful resources that we have developed locally in Leicester (UK). Please be aware we cannot offer individual clinical advice via the website - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
We will have some exciting developments in 2012. We are busy designing a new website for patients detailing their cancer experience. This will take the form of video diaries and should be ready in the summer. The initial focus will be on Leicestershire patients but will be free to view for anyone interested. If you know of any local patients who wish to volunteer please get in touch.
Metabolic Side Effects of Atypical Antipsychotics We
have been featured on BBC R4's "all in the mind" available on listen again
here (04-Oct-11) examining metabolic abnormalities and metabolic
monitoring for
those taking antipsychotics drugs. In support of this program please
see our patient resources
here and a new
completely free slideshow on metabolic complications of antipsychotics to
download here
Emotion Thermometer [Updated] This section describes our newly developed refinement and enhancement to the well known "Distress Thermometer" designed for self-completion with or without health professionals. The ET has been validated in cancer settings and now also in cardiovascular and neurological settings. Section recently updated.
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) =>We have a new flyer to explain who we are, aimed at new patients. Local staff can download the new East Midland Distress Thermometer screen (extract)
Local Blog [New] I am experimenting with a new local (embedded) blog on this page. Hopefully this will allow replies and simple updates.
For those looking for the very latest updates about our upcoming talks, workshops and in press papers go here; for the latest published papers try this PubMed Autosearch and we now have rapid updates by twitter. See also two new uploads....Top100 papers in psychiatry here and Organizational chart of NHS staffing here.
Self-Help and Patient Narratives [revised!] We have a new series of free self-help links for anxiety and depression. We also list a comprehensive directory of therapeutic patient narratives specifically for cancer courtesy of www.healthtalkonline.org. Also there is an online self-assessment for depression and anxiety that may be useful. We are busy designing a new website for patients detailing their cancer experience. This will take the form of video diaries and should be ready in the summer.
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.
Slide Shows [Updated Mar11] A collection of our presentations (powerpoint/pdf=>flash converted) on recent topics of interest. Many new slidesets have been uploaded including a PPT file of failing medical care of psychiatric patients here [free registration may be required]
Free PDF Searches and highlights [Updated Feb11] Our selected highlights of world psycho-oncology literature presented in free full text PDF. Now augmented with pre-searched items in the following categories: distress | depression | screening | delirium | communication | suicide | fatigue | survivorship [more soon] See also an excellent free issue of Acta Oncologica focussing on psychosocial aspects of cancer rehabilitation
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]
A list of resources for patients struggling with cancer as well as new metabolic/weight resources for those with mental health complaints in general
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]
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!
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10 questions about this site and online psycho-oncology resources in general....thanks for your feedback so far
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