Jaime M Preussler1,2, Ellen M Denzen3,4, Navneet S Majhail5, K Scott Baker6, Meggan McCann3, Linda J Burns3,4, Jean Yi6, Karen L Syrjala6. 1. National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA. jpreussl@nmdp.org. 2. Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, 55401, USA. jpreussl@nmdp.org. 3. National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 4. Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, 55401, USA. 5. Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. 6. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: INSPIRE (INteractive Survivorship Program with Information and REsources) is an online health program that includes a mobile app, website, health action plan, and individualized survivorship care plans for adult hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) survivors. The INSPIRE program integrates two previously effective randomized control trials that tested an internet-based program and patient-centered survivorship care plans for HCT survivors. METHODS: Three focus groups were conducted with a total of 22 participants (20 patients, 2 caregivers/patient advocates) to explore patient and caregiver preferences and to optimize the patient-centered emphasis of INSPIRE. Adult (age > 18 years at the time of study entry) HCT recipients had to be at least 1-year post-HCT to participate; caregivers/patient advocates were also eligible. Participants had to be able to communicate in English, could have any diagnosis, transplant type, or donor source, and could have had multiple transplants. RESULTS: All patient participants received an allogeneic HCT; average time since HCT was 8 years (range 2-22 years). The majority of participants were female (77.3%). Overall, the tools were well received by participants in this study, particularly the personalized features of all the tools. Major themes included interest in having the ability to tailor features to individual needs, and an interest in tracking information over time. DISCUSSION: Engaging patients and caregivers is invaluable to optimize tools designed to improve HCT survivorship care. Print, online, and mobile-based tools, tailored to individual patients' treatment history and requisite follow-up care, can provide otherwise unavailable expertise and guidelines for care.
PURPOSE: INSPIRE (INteractive Survivorship Program with Information and REsources) is an online health program that includes a mobile app, website, health action plan, and individualized survivorship care plans for adult hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) survivors. The INSPIRE program integrates two previously effective randomized control trials that tested an internet-based program and patient-centered survivorship care plans for HCT survivors. METHODS: Three focus groups were conducted with a total of 22 participants (20 patients, 2 caregivers/patient advocates) to explore patient and caregiver preferences and to optimize the patient-centered emphasis of INSPIRE. Adult (age > 18 years at the time of study entry) HCT recipients had to be at least 1-year post-HCT to participate; caregivers/patient advocates were also eligible. Participants had to be able to communicate in English, could have any diagnosis, transplant type, or donor source, and could have had multiple transplants. RESULTS: All patientparticipants received an allogeneic HCT; average time since HCT was 8 years (range 2-22 years). The majority of participants were female (77.3%). Overall, the tools were well received by participants in this study, particularly the personalized features of all the tools. Major themes included interest in having the ability to tailor features to individual needs, and an interest in tracking information over time. DISCUSSION: Engaging patients and caregivers is invaluable to optimize tools designed to improve HCT survivorship care. Print, online, and mobile-based tools, tailored to individual patients' treatment history and requisite follow-up care, can provide otherwise unavailable expertise and guidelines for care.
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Hematopoietic cell transplantation; Mobile app; Patient preferences; Patient-centered; Survivorship care plan
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