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Mike Groszmann Golnar Aref-Adib & Esha Abrol Ganeshi Wimalsingham & Rumana Lasker Taufiq Dawood Digital Communication Survey

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Mike Groszmann Golnar Aref-Adib & Esha Abrol

Ganeshi Wimalsingham & Rumana Lasker Taufiq Dawood

Digital Communication Survey

Psycho-Oncology team at UCLH   Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

  CT3 Psychiatry UCL Scheme

  UCL undergraduate medical students

UCLH TYA Cancer Service staff   T12, T13,Day Care

CLIC-Sargent Social Workers

Who we are

Results

Discussion

Method

Aims

Background

Digital Revolution

Digital Revolution

80% of UK households have internet access

Nearly half of all teens own a smartphone > 1 billion Facebook

users worldwide

Technology is changing the way patients learn about and manage their

health conditions

2 billion people estimated to have internet access

The Digital Native’s currency

Digital Revolution & Health

  Patient empowerment

  Evidence for efficacy of on-line support

  Accessibility

  Innovation

  Positive use of technology

TEDX talks Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave

Current research

  Internet accessed differently amongst different patient groups

  Attractive source of health information for chronic / stigmatising conditions:   Anonymous   Accessible   Convenient

e.g. Xie et al (2013); van der Eijk (2013)

Current research – Adult Oncology data

  2/3 patient use internet to find out about their illness

  Clinical decisions can be affected by health related internet use

  Health related internet use can lead to confusion

Lee, Gray & Lewis (2010); Castleton et al (2011); Zebrack et al (2013); Eastman (2010)

Psycho-Oncology

Problem   Significant demand   Difficulty accessing support   Keen for groups, but difficult to successfully

implement

Solution •  Develop an on-line service

Results

Discussion

Method

Aims

Background

Aims

  Survey TYA patients use of digital-communications

  Explore views on current on-line resources

  Identify desired services for future

Results

Discussion

Method

Aims

Background

  Discussed ideas with TYA London Cancer Board   Developed a questionnaire   Presented at UCLH TYA Senior Management meeting   Piloted   Amended   Rolled out June 2013 for 4 weeks   Paper questionnaires and emailed digital-survey   Distributed on wards, Day Care, via E-mail.

Method

Results

Discussion

Method

Aims

Background

Demographics: Gender & Age

Gender

Age

Total 51

!37 18+ + 106=

Years

1

7 7

3

98

13

6

8

4

7

10

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Not stated

34

2 0 1

Median

Mean 18.1

10

Demographics: Race & Religion

Race Religion

52 White

17 Asian/ Asian British

11 Black/ Black British

6 Mixed

53Other

Prefer not to say

33 Christian

17 Atheist

Muslim

Agnostic

18

Hindu

Prefer not to say

JewishOther

9

7624

What do you use to chat to family & friends?

105 responses 84 84 78

58

41 37 32

12

Phone Text Facebook WhatsApp Skype Twitter Email BBM Other5

What do you use to go on-line?

105 responses

8274

3831

18

Laptop Smartphone Tablet (e.g. iPad)

PC Games Console

Other None of the above

12

Do you contact cancer patients you have met?

35

26

20

9

7

7

5

5

1

Text

Facebook

Phone

No Yes

50% 50% Twitter

Email

Skype

Other

WhatsApp

BBM

104 responses

Do you contact cancer patients you haven’t met?

104 responses

5

3

3

2

2

1

1

1

0

Text

Facebook

Phone

Twitter

Email

Skype

WhatsApp

BBM

No

88.5%

Yes

11.5%

Other

How do you find out about your hospital and the treatments you are getting?

101 responses

6 6

90

4036

21

Information from

professionals

Leaflets Websites Friends/ family

Books Other

Have you used these websites?

100 responses

44 4339

9

Macmillan Cancer Centre

UCLH None of the above

Your local hospital

London Cancer

Other33

How do you try to find out about your cancer and what can be done about it?

97 responses

1315

81

43 43

22

Information from

professionals

Websites Leaflets Friends/ family

BooksOther

How important is digital communication in your life?

97 responses

0

Not at all Essential

10 16 26 430 2

Please rate these websites out of 7

Teenage Cancer Trust 1

Useless Excellent

5 10 12 2600

Total

52

Macmillan Teen & Young Adult 0 2 7 17 1420 42

CLIC Sargent 0 3 9 8 1300 33

London Sarcoma 0 3 4 5 520 19

Jimmy Teens 0 3 8 2 310 17

London Cancer 0 4 2 4 200 12

Youth Health Talk Teenage Cancer 1 1 4 0 220 10

Shine Cancer Support 0 1 3 2 030 9

Barts & The London kids 0 1 6 0 010 8

Other 0 0 1 1 110 4

What would you want to have available?

96 responses

Virtual on-line groups to chat to other young people who have to deal with cancer?

Counselling or psychological support on-line?

Receive information about your clinical condition, treatments, sources of support?

Able to share personal clinical information with professionals on-line?

Parents to have access to your on-line clinical information?

Yes

No

53

43

Yes

No

4155

Yes

No

65

31

Yes

No

49

47

Yes

No

49

47

Which professionals would you like to contact digitally and how?

36 responses

Doctors

Clinical Nurse Specialist

18

223

Total

22

Email

PhoneText

Other

9

22

4

Email

PhoneText

Other

15

Psychologist/ Counsellor3Email

Other 3

Social Worker, Radiographer, All

1 of each1

1

EmailText

1

What other services would be good to have online?

8 responses Clinical Services

Book/ check appointments Blood

results

Care plan on timeline

Symptom checker

Drug chart and side effects

What other services would be good to have online?

4 responses Information

Cancer awareness for healthy

teens

Shared care service

information

Anonymous case

histories

Q & A facility (cancer,

treatments)

What other services would be good to have online?

11 responses Peer support

Chat rooms

Social network

Support network for

parents

Youth Ambassadors

Forums

Search local area for

patients with a similar

condition Facetime

What other services would be good to have online?

3 responses Recreation

Group Events

Wifi

Games

Summary

  70% consider digital communication very important or essential

  ~75% use phone, text, Facebook   ~90% information from professionals; 35-40% leaflets &

websites   50% keep in touch with patients they met, mostly by

text and facebook. Very few contact patients they haven’t met.

  ~40% use UCLH and Macmillan Cancer Centre websites   Favourite websites are TCT, Macmillan, CLIC Sargent

Currently

Summary

  ~40-55% want digital peer-groups, support, and information shared with parents

  60% want information on condition digitally   Wish to contact professionals, mostly Drs and CNSs, by

email.   Some great ideas generated

Ambitions

Conclusions

  Digital communications are important for TYA patients

  Significant proportion want more on-line resources

  Cannot replace the existing off-line channels

  Current on-line provisions only modestly appealing

  Opportunity to develop helpful resources

What next?

  Focus group for TYA patients

  Set up peer-support group using existing social networks

  Improve and add to the available on-line information

  Begin to scope developing a dedicated, secure on-line resource to enable shared-care?

Results

Discussion

Method

Aims

Background

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