The National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s Distress Thermometer helps folks with most cancers worldwide obtain higher care by empowering dialogue and recommending finest practices for managing psychological wellness.
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) as we speak introduced an up to date NCCN Distress Thermometer, obtainable in greater than 70 languages, to assist folks around the globe determine and tackle psychosocial stressors that will increase challenges when dealing with having most cancers, its signs, or remedy. The announcement comes on World Mental Health Day, a world day for elevating consciousness of world psychological well being wants and sources.
“The NCCN Distress Thermometer has been helping to normalize and encourage discussion of distress as a standard part of oncology patient visits since 1997,” stated Michelle Riba, MD, MS, University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, Chair of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) Panel for Distress Management. “We recently overhauled this free one-page resource to be even more user-friendly and inclusive. Distress screening should be a routine part of cancer care for everyone, everywhere. By making this free resource even easier to understand and use, as well as more accessible, we hope all people with cancer will receive the support they need in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.”
The device features a easy scale for indicating the quantity of misery a affected person is experiencing. It additionally contains a easy guidelines of issues overlaying completely different domains, together with:
- Physical;
- Emotional;
- Practical;
- Social;
- and Spiritual or Religious.
In addition to the one-page NCCN Distress Thermometer and Problem List, there are full NCCN Guidelines® for Distress Management containing evidence-based skilled consensus suggestions meant for well being care suppliers. There are additionally NCCN Guidelines for Patients®: Distress During Cancer Care with the identical data in an accessible format to empower sufferers and caregivers to take part in shared decision-making.
The up to date NCCN Distress Thermometer translations are a part of NCCN’s ongoing efforts to make NCCN Guidelines and related scientific sources extra accessible for non-English audio system. It is now obtainable in the next languages, in addition to the unique English:
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* Indicates the Distress Thermometer has been printed in a number of variations of the language.
“On World Mental Health Day and every day, we want to uphold the fact that addressing emotional distress is a key part of patient care,” stated Robert W. Carlson, MD, Chief Executive Officer, NCCN. “We hope our work helps reduce any stigma or burden, enabling these important discussions around emotional wellbeing.”
Independent researchers just lately printed a examine in Psycho-Oncology inspecting 39 peer-reviewed articles validating using the NCCN Distress Thermometer throughout 25 nations, stating: “This tool has proven to be an effective means to support initiation of the conversation.”
The translated NCCN Distress Thermometer might be discovered at NCCN.org/distress-thermometer-translations.
Visit NCCN.org/world to be taught extra about free most cancers care sources for various areas and languages, and be a part of the dialog on-line with the hashtag #NCCNGlobal.
About the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) is a not-for-profit alliance of main most cancers facilities dedicated to affected person care, analysis, and schooling. NCCN is devoted to enhancing and facilitating high quality, efficient, equitable, and accessible most cancers care so all sufferers can dwell higher lives. Visit NCCN.org for extra data on the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) and different initiatives. Follow NCCN on Facebook @NCCNorg, Instagram @NCCNorg, and Twitter @NCCN.
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