ESTRO meets Asia 2024 - Abstract Book

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Interdisciplinary – Education in radiation oncology

ESTRO meets Asia 2024

establishing clear workflow solutions as well as organizing comprehensive staff training including both clinical and on non-clinical staff make significant impact on healthcare staff apprehension when implementing brachytherapy. Trainings up skill the healthcare workers and address their fears related to lack of knowledge and radiation safety. Reducing apprehension increases the motivation of the team as well as the sense of benefit for the patient.

Keywords: brachytherapy apprehension impact training

References:

1. Scanderbeg DJ, Yashar C, Ouhib Z, Jhingran A, Einck J. Development, implementation, and associated challenges of a new HDR brachytherapy program. Brachytherapy. 2020 Nov-Dec;19(6):874-880.

2.Morrow A, Chan P, Tiernan G, Steinberg J, Debono D, Wolfenden L, Tucker KM, Hogden E, Taylor N. Building capacity from within: qualitative evaluation of a training program aimed at upskilling healthcare workers in delivering an evidence-based implementation approach. Transl Behav Med. 2022 Jan 18;12(1).

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leaflet & video patient education material for breathhold technique reduce anxiety and education time

Basma MBAREK, Tin phang duc

oncology, FV hospital, HCMC, Vietnam

Purpose/Objective:

Breath hold technique (BHT) consists in delivering the radiotherapy dose to patients while they are holding their breath .This could be challenging for some patients. Thus proper education and training are crucial to ensure their understating and cooperation(1). For this reason both hard copies leaflets of patient education material (PEM) and video format PEM were developed in our center. The added value of the hard copy leaflet and video format PEMs was evaluated through a quantitative evaluation of the duration of radiographer’s education and training sessions and a qualitative study of patient’s satisfaction

Material/Methods:

The patient education for BHT started in 2020 in our department with initially solely verbal education then successively a hard copy PEM ( January 2021) and a video format PEM ( January 2022) were developed and implemented. The hard copy enclosed both text and photos of the different steps of the BHT. The duration of the radiographer education and training session (time of explanation till successful breath hold ct simulation acquisition) was collected during the different periods of time : when only verbal education was done then when hard copy was available and finally when the both leaflet hard copy educational and video format PEM were available. The patient satisfaction was collected by a navigating nurse with a semi directed qualitative questionnaire starting from January 2022 when patients had both the hard copy leaflet PEM and the video format PEM. A total of 36 patients were interviewed.