ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S5651

RTT - Patient experience and quality of life

ESTRO 2024

This abstract describes the involvement of patients within the design and delivery of a project, and not the research project results.

Material/Methods:

PREHABS is a single centre feasibility study with the aim to improve the experiences and outcomes of patients undergoing curative radiotherapy for lung cancer, by incorporating behavioural modification support in the standard of care pathway. Interventions included smoking cessation, increasing activity and diet optimisation. To ensure that the PREHABS study was practical and acceptable to patients, the opinions from previous and current radiotherapy patients were sought at all stages of the project. A preparatory workshop garnered the opinions of patients to design the PREHABS intervention package. Specific topics were discussed including technology, apps and gyms. The assumptions of preference were tested during the study delivery to ratify findings of the workshop in a clinical setting. The Theory of Change (ToC) methodology was selected to provide a framework to evaluate and modify the identified interventions 9 . This allowed for an iterative process to react to suggestions from the study participants to optimise to a final intervention package.

Results:

Patients were successfully involved at all stages of the PREHABS study: from design to dissemination (Figure 1). There were two distinctive groups who provided “the voice” of the patient:

• Patients who had completed their lung cancer treatment (patient and public Involvement) • Patients who were undergoing lung cancer treatment (study participants)

Both groups of patients provided valuable insight to the PREHABS study.