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Female patients had lower life purpose [p=0.006], more frequent mobility difficulties [p=0.042] and joint complaints [p<0.001], greater worries about others [p=0.001], future worries [p=0.042], and significant disease impact [p=0.027]. Participants with breast or lung tumours presented more mobility difficulties [p=0.021] and greater burden of disease [p<0.001]. For breast cancer patients, joint complaints were more prevalent [p=0.001]. Conclusion The assessment of quality of life allows to know the difficulties perception from the viewpoint of the older person. For this population there were a significant correlation with ADL performance and multiple QoL domains.

PO-1073 Medical physicist’s clinical role: a patient survey

T. Valdivielso Lopez 1 , E. Ambroa 1 , J. García-Miguel 1 , Á. Infestas 1 , D. Navarro 1 , A. Ramirez 1 , M. Lizondo 1 , Á. Lorenzo 1 , M. Colomer 1

1 Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Radiotherapy, Terrassa, Spain

Purpose or Objective There has been a recent debate on broadening the scope of medical physics practice to include increasing participation in direct patient care. Physicists have long played a critical role in the safe and effective delivery of radiotherapy, whereas direct interactions with patients have been limited. AAPM has published several guidelines (MPPG 10.a) suggesting physicist-patient interactions are to be included in the standard scope of practice for clinical physicists. The objective of this study is the first step to evaluate the necessity of medical physicist-patient interactions within our department. Materials and Methods From the Medical Physics Unit, we designed an information sheet containing useful data related to the role of medical physicists, in addition to technical details about the treatment design and the LINAC quality assurance. On the day of the CT simulation, we gave this information sheet to each patient, except for those in an advanced stage of the disease. Before starting the treatment, the patients had time to read and assimilate the information at home. At the end of the treatment, each patient received an anonymous voluntary survey with six simple questions, regarding the information contained in the document. They submitted the survey in a box. Results We collected 78 surveys from August to October 2022. The first question in the survey was whether the patient had read the information sheet and 83% answered affirmatively. The aim of the following four questions was to test whether the information supplied was helpful to the patients. Figure 1 shows the results of questions 2, 3, 4, and 5. Most patients believed they had understood the document and stated that having received the sheet was beneficial for them.