Cancer and COVID-19: Patients' and psychologists' reflections regarding psycho-oncology service changes
Ce dossier présente un ensemble d'articles concernant la prise en charge des cancers durant la crise sanitaire liée au COVID-19
The Linda McCartney Centre is a patient‐centred cancer centre at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK, offering a specialised psychology service for people experiencing significant distress related to cancer. We work as part of a multi‐disciplinary team within the cancer service and offer a range of empirically‐validated therapies. The team is comprised of six psychologists, several trainee psychologists and an assistant psychologist and received over 400 referrals last year from the North West of England. Since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, we have changed our ways of working to continue to offer therapy, clinical supervision and staff training and support remotely, whilst complying with isolation directives. In this letter, we reflect on the themes that have emerged during our transition to remote working and our clinical practice. To inform this, we invited all psychologists within the services to complete a questionnaire asking about their experiences of remote working, and also asked them to nominate patient(s) from their caseload who may be willing to participate in an interview about their experiences. We also contacted patients who had declined therapy and opted instead to remain on the waiting list, to understand their experiences. (...)
Psycho-Oncology , article en libre accès, 2019