Nurse navigators’ views on patient and system factors associated with navigation needs among women with breast cancer

Sally D. Miller; Robin Urquhart; George Kephart; Yukiko Asada; Tallal Younis

doi:10.3390/curroncol28030195

Nurse navigators’ views on patient and system factors associated with navigation needs among women with breast cancer

Sally D. Miller, Robin Urquhart, George Kephart, Yukiko Asada, Tallal Younis

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Abstract

Coordinating breast cancer treatment is a complex task that can overwhelm patients and their support networks. Though the Cancer Patient Navigator (CPN) program in Nova Scotia (NS) provides professional assistance to patients, certain groups of patients may still face barriers to accessing its services. Employing interviews and a modified Delphi approach with CPN participants, this study sought to identify factors associated with the need for navigation to help better target CPN program referrals among breast cancer patients. Six CPNs were recruited directly through the CPN program manager for interviews and surveys. The CPNs identified 27 different factors, which were divided into 4 categories: sociodemographic, psychological, clinical and health systems. While these patient factors (particularly sociodemographic) are not directly modifiable, awareness of their association with the need for navigation could be used to better target patients with a high need for navigation for referral to CPN services.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2107-2114
Number of pages	8
Journal	Current Oncology
Volume	28
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol28030195
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Funding: This research was funded in part by the Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit and the Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (with support from the QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation and the Breast Cancer Society of Canada).

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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