TY - GEN
T1 - Work status of individuals with advanced cancer
AU - Terhaar, Abigail
AU - Lee, Ju Whei
AU - Tevaarwerk, Amye
AU - Sesto, Mary
AU - Wiegmann, Douglas
AU - Fisch, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Lengthening survival times for advanced cancer patients emphasizes the importance of continuing to work after diagnosis. Information and tools are necessary to help these individuals remain working. Before we can develop interventions, we must understand how advanced cancer affects employment. We analyzed Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group's (ECOG) "Symptom Outcomes and Practice Patterns (SOAPP)" study to investigate what factors were associated with employment of 680 advanced cancer patients. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to compare patients identified as stably working (Group A) to patients no longer working (Group B). Improving ECOG performance status, race/ethnicity, receiving hormonal treatment, and decreasing symptom interference were significantly associated with continuing to work. Human factors engineers (HFEs) can help create strategies to mitigate some physical and cognitive workloads that result in work interference. The HFE's role should increase as the number of advanced cancer patients working rises.
AB - Lengthening survival times for advanced cancer patients emphasizes the importance of continuing to work after diagnosis. Information and tools are necessary to help these individuals remain working. Before we can develop interventions, we must understand how advanced cancer affects employment. We analyzed Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group's (ECOG) "Symptom Outcomes and Practice Patterns (SOAPP)" study to investigate what factors were associated with employment of 680 advanced cancer patients. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to compare patients identified as stably working (Group A) to patients no longer working (Group B). Improving ECOG performance status, race/ethnicity, receiving hormonal treatment, and decreasing symptom interference were significantly associated with continuing to work. Human factors engineers (HFEs) can help create strategies to mitigate some physical and cognitive workloads that result in work interference. The HFE's role should increase as the number of advanced cancer patients working rises.
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U2 - 10.1177/1541931214581153
DO - 10.1177/1541931214581153
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957648162
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 649
EP - 653
BT - 2014 International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2014
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
T2 - 58th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2014
Y2 - 27 October 2014 through 31 October 2014
ER -