Strategies for promoting cancer survivors’ return to work: an integrative literature review
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https://doi.org/10.5433/anh.2021v3.id42566Keywords:
Neoplasms, Cancer Survivors, Return to Work, Occupational Health Nursing, Occupational Health.Abstract
Objective: Toidentify strategies to promote maintenance and return to work for cancer survivors in different countries.
Method: This is an integrative literature review carried out between October 2020 and January 2021, without time frame, using the Lilacs, PubMed, CINAHL and PsycINFO databases, and the descriptors “Neoplasms”, “Return to Work”, “Survivorship” and the keywords “Strategy”.
Results: No national publications were identified. The identified strategies are related to communication and guidance of workers and the work team, multidisciplinary work in healthcare and adaptations in the workplace.
Conclusion: There is a need and feasibility to implement actions based on international scientific evidence, favoring the maintenance or return to work after cancer diagnosis, with planning that includes the health team, employers, supervisors and work team. Assessments are needed from the time of hospitalization, until after reintegration into the workplace, with workplace adaptations that require feasible organizational planning, involving adaptations of workstations, flexible workloads and hours to attend consultations and necessary therapies. Although not described, nursing work is essential both from a clinical and occupational perspective.
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Feuerstein M, Todd BL, Moskowitz MC, Bruns GL, Stoler MR, Nassif T, et al. Work in cancer survivors: a model for practice and research. J Cancer Surviv, [Internet]. 2010 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 4(4):415-37. DOI: 10.1007/s11764-010-0154-6.
Feuerstein M. Defining cancer survivorship. J Cancer Surviv [Internet]. 2007 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 1:5-7. DOI: 10.1007/s11764-006-0002-x.
Gallasch CH, Alexandre NMC, Esteves SCB, Pérez-Júnor EF, Faria MGA, Oliveira EB, et al. Mental Functioning of Workers with Cancer Diagnosis by Brazilian Version of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire-WRFQ-Br. Health [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 14(8):1495-505. DOI: 10.4236/health.2016.814148.
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Groeneveld IF, de Boer AG, Frings-Dresen MH. Physical exercise and return to work: cancer survivors' experiences. J Cancer Surviv [Internet]. 2013 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 7(2):237-46. DOI: 10.1007/s11764-012-0264-4.
Hoffman B. Cancer survivors at work: a generation of progress. Cancer J Clin [Internet]. 2005 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 55:271-80. DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.55.5.271.
Hubbard G, Gray NM, Ayansina D, Evans JM, Kyle RG. Case management vocational rehabilitation for women with breast cancer after surgery: a feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial. Trials [Internet]. 2013 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 14:175. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-175.
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Marzorati C, Riva S, Pravettoni G. Who is a cancer survivor? A systematic review of published definitions. J Canc Educ [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 32(2):228-37. DOI: 10.1007/s13187-016-0997-2.
Mendes KDS, Silveira RCCP, Galvão CM. Integrative literature review: a research method to incorporate evidence in health care and nursing. Texto Contexto Enferm [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2020 Oct 31]; 17(4):758-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-07072008000400018
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Moskowitz MC, Todd BL, Chen R, Feuerstein M. Function and friction at work: a multidimensional analysis of work outcomes in cancer survivors. J Cancer Surviv [Internet], 2014 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 8(2:173-82. DOI: 10.1007/s11764-013-0340-4.
Oliveira RAA, Araújo JS, Conceição VM, Zago MMF. Cancer survivorship: unwrapping this reality. Cienc Cuid Saude [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 14(4):1602-8. DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v14i4.27445
Rusbridge SL, Walmsley NC, Griffiths SB, Wilford PA, Rees JH. Predicting outcomes of vocational rehabilitation in patients with brain tumors. Psycho-Oncology [Internet]. 2013 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 22(8):1907-11. DOI: 10.1002/pon.3241.
Sandberg JC, Strom C, Arcury TA. Strategies used by breast cancer survivors to address work-related limitations during and after treatment. Womens Health Issues [Internet]. 2014 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 24(2):e197-204. DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2013.12.007.
Stergiou-Kita M, Pritlove C, van Eerd D, Holness LD, Kirsh B, Duncan A, et al, The provision of workplace accommodations following cancer: survivor, provider, and employer perspectives. J Cancer Surviv [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 10(3):489-504. DOI: 10.1007/s11764-015-0492-5.
Tamminga SJ, de Boer AG, Bos MM, Fons G, Kitzen JJ, Plaisier PW, et al. A hospital-based work support intervention to enhance the return to work of cancer patients: a process evaluation. J Occup Rehabil [Internet]. 2012 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 22(4):565-78. DOI: 10.1007/s10926-012-9372-2.
Tamminga SJ, de Boer AG, Verbeek JH, Frings-Dresen MH. Breast cancer survivors' views of factors that influence the return-to-work process--a qualitative study. Scand J Work Environ Health [Internet]. 2012 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 38(2):144-54. DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3199.
Tamminga SJ, Verbeek JH, Bos MM, Fons G, Kitzen JJ, Plaisier PW, et al. Effectiveness of a hospital-based work support intervention for female cancer patients - a multi-centre randomised controlled trial. PLoS One [Internet]. 2013 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 8(5):e63271. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063271.
Tamminga SJ, Verbeek JH, de Boer A G, van der Bij RM, Frings-Dresen MH. A work-directed intervention to enhance the return to work of employees with cancer: a case study. Work. [Internet]. 2013 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 46(4):477-85. DOI: 10.3233/WOR-131681.
Thijs KM, de Boer AG, Vreugdenhil G, van de Wouw AJ, Houterman S, Schep G. Rehabilitation using high-intensity physical training and long-term return-to-work in cancer survivors. J Occup Rehabil [Internet]. 2012 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 22(2):220-9. DOI: 10.1007/s10926-011-9341-1.
Torp S, Nielsen RA, Gudbergsson SB, Dahl AA. Worksite adjustments and work ability among employed cancer survivors. Support Care Cancer [Internet]. 2012 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 20(9):2149-56. DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1325-3.
Ullrich A, Rath HM, Otto U, Kerschgens C, Raida M, Hagen-Aukamp C, et al. Return to work in prostate cancer survivors – findings from a prospective study on occupational reintegration following a cancer rehabilitation program. BMC Cancer [Internet]. 2018 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 18:751. DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-4614-0.
van Egmond MP, Duijts SFA, Scholten APJ, Van der Beek AJ, Anema JR. Offering a tailored return to work program to cancer survivors with job loss: a process evaluation. BMC Public Health [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 16:940. DOI:10.1186/s12889-016-3592-x.
Van Egmond MP, Duijts SFA, Vermeulen SJ, van der Beek AJ, Anema JR. Return to work in sick-listed cancer survivors with job loss: design of a randomized controlled trial. BMC Cancer [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 15:63. DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1051-1.
van Muijen P, Duijts SF, Bonefaas-Groenewoud K, van der Beek AJ, Anema JR. Factors associated with work disability in employed cancer survivors at 24-month sick leave. BMC Cancer [Internet]. 2014 [cited 2020 Jun 30]; 14:236. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-236
Vidor C, Leroyer A, Christophe V, Seillier M, Foncel J, Van de Maële J, et al. Decrease social inequalities return-to-work: development and design of a randomised controlled trial among women with breast cancer. BMC Cancer [Internet]. 2014 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 14:267. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-267.
Whittemore R, Knafl K. The integrative review: updated methodology. J Adv Nurs [Internet]. 2005 [cited 2020 Oct 31]; 52(5):546-53. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03621.x
Wiskemann J, Schommer K, Jaeger D, Scharhag-Rosenberger F. Exercise and cancer: return to work as a firefighter with ostomy after rectal carcinoma – a case report. Medicine [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 95:29. DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000004309.
Yarker J, Munir F, Bains M, Kalawsky K, Haslam C. The role of communication and support in return to work following cancer-related absence. Psycho-Oncology [Internet]. 2010 [cited 2021 Jan 15]; 19(10), 1078-1085. DOI: 10.1002/pon.1662.
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Rocha, E. C. L. da, Ildefonso, A. P. R., Faria, M. G. de A., Vargens, O. M. da C., Mininel, V. A., & Gallasch, C. H. (2021). Strategies for promoting cancer survivors’ return to work: an integrative literature review. Advances in Nursing and Health, 3. https://doi.org/10.5433/anh.2021v3.id42566
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