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Very nice presentation Mme..Thank you for such a simplified detailed description 🙏..I have a query I am already in a Cancer hospital services..In Nuclear Medicine (technical staff)..How can I qualify to be of Psycho oncology service to the patients coming to my workplace?
Dear Ms. Indu thank you for your kind comment, coming to your question on how you can qualify. I would like to say since you already are in the space of cancer maybe observing the patients and carers will give you an idea of what aspects you would like to help out with and there are a number of courses which are offering basic counselling skills and training for volunteers who are keen on offering psycho-oncology services, some of them are offered by Cancer Institute in Chennai, COPER Bangalore, CAN Support, HCG Bangalore, Indian association of palliative care (IAPC), UNMUKT, these will help you volunteer and support the doctors and patients. In case you are looking at formal education a Mphil or PhD in Psycho-oncology would be ideal, kindly let me know if you have any further doubts, will be happy to help, thank you.
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So glad I made the decision to pursue my Masters in Health Psychology. This video just confirmed I made the right choice and inspired me to move on to my doctorate in Health Psychology as well. Thank you!
It was nice presentation. I was also looking for, how different Psycho-oncology models of care plays vital role in shared decision making and patient choices which may have conflicts with proposed treatments due to second opinion. The conflict between the proposed treatments and patient acceptance and measurement of outcomes by specific bio-markers has interestingly played vital role in inducing Emotional Labor among oncologist, oncology nurses, social workers and other counselling therapist. In my personal experiences, when a breast cancer patient has been advised a standard treatment and when patient asked how do i can be convinced to have better prognosis even though the recommended treatment is compliance with Evidence-Based Medicine. Measuring the clinical outcomes may be the answer, patient requested to make assessment with difference in clinical bio-markers before and after treatment. So how many oncologist really have this guts to convince the treatments designed may have good clinical outcome and they are ready to test with bio-markers, even though bio-markers can not be significant in all cancers. Dr. Chittem you have much scope to work on different aspects of Psycho-oncology. Best Regards. Dr. Shoeb Ahmed, Consultant @ Ruby Med Plus.
There is a lack of guidance to clinical practitioners and patients about how to accomplish the prognosis approach in routine clinical practice.Even though principles of shared decision making are well documented but are not adapted in Indian Clinical Settings.Achieving shared decision making depends on building a good relationship and Trust of patient and patient family in the clinical encounter so that clinical information on prognosis is shared and patients are supported to deliberate and express their preferences and views during the decision making process.Clinicians have to explain the diagnosis and explain the prognosis of the patient and then to share the treatment options including alternate choice, cost-benefit, clinical risk and clear prognosis and hence clinicians must introduce treatment choice, describe treatment options, often by integrating the use of patient decision support, and helping patients and their families understand the clinical status of the patient, explore preferences and make decisions accordingly to what matters most to patients as individuals, and that this exploration in turn depends on them developing informed preferences. The counselling on treatment outcomes, family and social support, building positive emotions, sharing evidence based guidelines, financial matters and complete transparency and the ability of clinical teams to build trust and good communication will be important for better outcomes of treatment and exceed patient expectations.
Good Day, Dr. Mahati! I am currently conducting a study related to psychological distress. I would like to ask what are the typical signs of psychological distress and at the same time the evident signs of it? Thank you! :)
Dear Shravanthi, I would praise you for such a new topic selection. Happy to see you taking such initiative. Thanks to all your guide for endeavouring you. Keep posting. Keep sharing.
