Developing a sustained European initiative for monitoring and sharing practices in psychosocial oncology care provision (DESIPOC)
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Description
There is considerable variation in how European stakeholders are providing psychosocial oncology care and how healthcare professionals screen for mental health challenges. There is also a lack of initiatives that tackle mental health challenges for different stakeholders: patients, carers, families, and healthcare professionals. The DESIPOC project aims to capitalize on these evidence with an aim to develop and pilot a knowledge hub, virtual observatory and training system in participating countries as proof-of-concept that will collect, organize, and disseminate knowledge, best practices, and resources related to stakeholders’ strategies used and needs towards psychosocial oncology care provision with an emphasis on advancing screening efficacy for mental health challenges, communication, knowledge, skills whilst recognizing and tackling systemic barriers and facilitators for providing care to patients, carers, families and healthcare professionals. The project is co-funded by the EU4Health programme [Project Number: 101161339] and runs from 2024 until 2027. The key objectives are to:
Knowledge Sharing
Establish cross-country initiatives to facilitate knowledge-sharing, allowing mapping of different country needs in terms of psychosocial oncology care provision and mental health screening among individuals with cancer, carers and healthcare professionals (with an emphasis on vulnerable groups) and tailored interventions to be delivered through the DESIPOC platform.
Evidence-Based Strategies
Utilize research findings to advance stakeholders’ abilities in providing care to patients, carers, families and healthcare professionals, advancing screening efficacy for mental health challenges, communication, knowledge, skills.
Consortium Expertise
Leverage the consortium’s extensive research and policymaking experience and an interdisciplinary approach bridging fields such as public health, psychology, and epidemiology with technological innovations.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them [Project Number: 101161339]
