 Factors Facilitating or Creating Barriers to Returning to Work in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Within the First 6 Months After TreatmentSu-Erh Chiu, Kuei-An Cho, Bing-Shen Huang, Chien-Yu Lin, Ching-Fang Chung, Ya-Lan Chang and Shu-Ching Chen Clinical Nursing Research, 2023, vol. 32, issue 1, 197-208 Abstract: Head and neck cancer (HNC) patients who are unable to return to work after completing treatment might face financial loss and reduced self-esteem. The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing a return to work in HNC cancer patients in the first 6 months after treatment. This cross-sectional study examined HNC patients who completed treatment from the outpatient radiation department of a single cancer center in northern Taiwan. Patients were assessed according to psychological distress, patient-perceived health status, barriers to returning to work, and facilitators of returning to work. Of the 106 HNC patients surveyed, 54.7% successfully returned to work. Barriers to returning to work included poor self-perception of health, greater psychological distress, and age ≥50 years. Patients who had higher psychological distress, returned to work after start of the pandemic, or received reconstruction surgery were less likely to experience a positive environment facilitating a return to work. Keywords: head and neck cancer; return to work; barriers; facilitators; subjective health (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:clnure:v:32:y:2023:i:1:p:197-208 DOI: 10.1177/10547738221106292 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Clinical Nursing Research |
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