Afaf Girgis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1737372 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Afaf Girgis |
| PRENOMES | Afaf |
| SOBRENOME | Girgis |
| ASSINATURA | GIRGIS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cancer Council NSW |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4101-4006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Cancer Care Team’s Management of Clinical Alerts Generated by Electronically Collected Patient Reported Outcomes
Electronically administered patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are effective digital health tools for informing clinicians about cancer patients' symptoms and facilitating timely patient-centred care. This paper describes the delivery of healthcare activities supported by the PROMPT-Care model, including ePROMs generated clinical alerts, cancer care team (CCT) response to alerts, and patients' perceptions of the CCT response and ePROMs sy…
We Have to Be Strong Ourselves”
Informal carers provide an important role in supporting people with cancer. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience higher cancer mortality than other Australians. To date, very little is known about the support needs of carers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults with cancer. This article explored these needs through a qualitative study. Twenty-two semi-structured qualitative interviews and one focus group were conduc…
Having breast reconstruction post-mastectomy
Objective: Little is known about the experience of women of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in relation to breast reconstruction following mastectomy as treatment for their breast cancer. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influenced Vietnamese- and English-speaking women's decisions about breast reconstruction post-mastectomy for their breast cancer, in Australia. Design: The participants in this study…
Interpreting and Acting on the PRO Scores From the Patient-reported Outcomes for Personalized Treatment and Care (PROMPT-Care) eHealth System
INTRODUCTION: Patient-reported Outcomes for Personalized Treatment and Care (PROMPT-Care) is the first eHealth system in Australia that is fully electronically integrated into hospital oncology information systems, enabling real-time, routine collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to support and enable cancer patients to achieve and maintain improved health, well-being, and cancer outcomes. Five previously published papers detail the impe…
Whole of patient cancer care
Calls to improve the quality of care to cancer patients seek a change in practice that moves beyond a focussed disease management model to one that integrates psychosocial care into routine clinical services. In The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) call for “Whole of Patient” care in cancer, the following were identified priorities: improved assessment for better identification of psychosocial needs; support for self management of illness; clinical …
Routine screening of Indigenous cancer patients’ unmet support needs
Staff and patients found the SCNAT-IP to be an acceptable tool and supported universal screening for Indigenous cancer patients. The SCNAT-IP has the potential to help reduce the inequalities in cancer care experienced by Indigenous Australians by identifying and subsequently addressing their unmet support needs. Further research is needed to explore the validity of the SCNAT-IP for Indigenous people from other nations
Helping lay carers of people with advanced cancer and their GPs to talk
The lay caregiving role is integral to advanced cancer care but places carers' health at risk. A supportive General Practitioner (GP) can help primary lay carers manage their health, if they disclose their concerns. A Needs Assessment Tool for Caregivers (NAT-C) was developed for carers to self-complete and use as the basis of a GP consultation, then tested in a randomised controlled trial. This paper reports a qualitative research study to deter…
Exercise and nutrition routine improving cancer health (Enrich)
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Register identifier: ANZCTRN12609001086257
RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
ISRCTN: ISRCTN85202510
A randomised controlled trial of proactive telephone counselling on cold-called smokers' cessation rates
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry; ACTRN012606000221550
Anywhere, anytime
Rapid assessment of psychosocial well-being
The accuracy of self-reported health behaviors and risk factors relating to cancer and cardiovascular disease in the general population
Is There Consensus Between Breast Cancer Patients and Providers on Guidelines for Breaking Bad News
Eighty-four breast cancer patients, 64 oncologists, and 140 oncology nurses rated the importance of 15 general principles and 12 recommended steps to guide clinicians in breaking bad news to patients. At least 70% of the three samples rated 7 of the 15 principles and 6 of the 12 steps as essential. All three groups agreed that patients have a legal and moral right to accurate and reliable information and that patients should be given the diagnosi…
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
Community action for cancer prevention
This paper describes the rationale, aims, design and methods of a large-scale community action cancer prevention project. Cancer Action in Rural Towns (CART). The primary aim of the CART project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community action program in increasing community rates of preventive and screening behaviours relating to breast, cervical, smoking-related and skin cancer. Twenty towns in rural New South Wales, Australia (population…
The development of a new methodology to assess perceived needs among indigenous Australians
A workplace intervention for increasing outdoor workers' use of solar protection
OBJECTIVES. Outdoor workers are at high risk of developing skin cancer. Primary prevention in this group can potentially reduce the incidence of skin cancer, and also potentiates the spontaneous remission of existing solar keratoses. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate a solar protection intervention targeting outdoor workers. METHODS. Outdoor workers were randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 65) or control group (n = 77…
Anywhere, anytime
A workplace intervention for increasing outdoor workers' use of solar protection
OBJECTIVES. Outdoor workers are at high risk of developing skin cancer. Primary prevention in this group can potentially reduce the incidence of skin cancer, and also potentiates the spontaneous remission of existing solar keratoses. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate a solar protection intervention targeting outdoor workers. METHODS. Outdoor workers were randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 65) or control group (n = 77…
Helping lay carers of people with advanced cancer and their GPs to talk
The lay caregiving role is integral to advanced cancer care but places carers' health at risk. A supportive General Practitioner (GP) can help primary lay carers manage their health, if they disclose their concerns. A Needs Assessment Tool for Caregivers (NAT-C) was developed for carers to self-complete and use as the basis of a GP consultation, then tested in a randomised controlled trial. This paper reports a qualitative research study to deter…
The development of a new methodology to assess perceived needs among indigenous Australians
A workplace intervention for increasing outdoor workers' use of solar protection
OBJECTIVES. Outdoor workers are at high risk of developing skin cancer. Primary prevention in this group can potentially reduce the incidence of skin cancer, and also potentiates the spontaneous remission of existing solar keratoses. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate a solar protection intervention targeting outdoor workers. METHODS. Outdoor workers were randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 65) or control group (n = 77…
The development of a new methodology to assess perceived needs among indigenous Australians
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
Community action for cancer prevention
This paper describes the rationale, aims, design and methods of a large-scale community action cancer prevention project. Cancer Action in Rural Towns (CART). The primary aim of the CART project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community action program in increasing community rates of preventive and screening behaviours relating to breast, cervical, smoking-related and skin cancer. Twenty towns in rural New South Wales, Australia (population…
The accuracy of self-reported health behaviors and risk factors relating to cancer and cardiovascular disease in the general population
Is There Consensus Between Breast Cancer Patients and Providers on Guidelines for Breaking Bad News
Eighty-four breast cancer patients, 64 oncologists, and 140 oncology nurses rated the importance of 15 general principles and 12 recommended steps to guide clinicians in breaking bad news to patients. At least 70% of the three samples rated 7 of the 15 principles and 6 of the 12 steps as essential. All three groups agreed that patients have a legal and moral right to accurate and reliable information and that patients should be given the diagnosi…
Rapid assessment of psychosocial well-being
A randomised controlled trial of proactive telephone counselling on cold-called smokers' cessation rates
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry; ACTRN012606000221550
Anywhere, anytime
Exercise and nutrition routine improving cancer health (Enrich)
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Register identifier: ANZCTRN12609001086257
RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population
ISRCTN: ISRCTN85202510
Helping lay carers of people with advanced cancer and their GPs to talk
The lay caregiving role is integral to advanced cancer care but places carers' health at risk. A supportive General Practitioner (GP) can help primary lay carers manage their health, if they disclose their concerns. A Needs Assessment Tool for Caregivers (NAT-C) was developed for carers to self-complete and use as the basis of a GP consultation, then tested in a randomised controlled trial. This paper reports a qualitative research study to deter…
Routine screening of Indigenous cancer patients’ unmet support needs
Staff and patients found the SCNAT-IP to be an acceptable tool and supported universal screening for Indigenous cancer patients. The SCNAT-IP has the potential to help reduce the inequalities in cancer care experienced by Indigenous Australians by identifying and subsequently addressing their unmet support needs. Further research is needed to explore the validity of the SCNAT-IP for Indigenous people from other nations
Whole of patient cancer care
Calls to improve the quality of care to cancer patients seek a change in practice that moves beyond a focussed disease management model to one that integrates psychosocial care into routine clinical services. In The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) call for “Whole of Patient” care in cancer, the following were identified priorities: improved assessment for better identification of psychosocial needs; support for self management of illness; clinical …
Having breast reconstruction post-mastectomy
Objective: Little is known about the experience of women of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in relation to breast reconstruction following mastectomy as treatment for their breast cancer. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influenced Vietnamese- and English-speaking women's decisions about breast reconstruction post-mastectomy for their breast cancer, in Australia. Design: The participants in this study…
Interpreting and Acting on the PRO Scores From the Patient-reported Outcomes for Personalized Treatment and Care (PROMPT-Care) eHealth System
INTRODUCTION: Patient-reported Outcomes for Personalized Treatment and Care (PROMPT-Care) is the first eHealth system in Australia that is fully electronically integrated into hospital oncology information systems, enabling real-time, routine collection of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to support and enable cancer patients to achieve and maintain improved health, well-being, and cancer outcomes. Five previously published papers detail the impe…
We Have to Be Strong Ourselves”
Informal carers provide an important role in supporting people with cancer. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience higher cancer mortality than other Australians. To date, very little is known about the support needs of carers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults with cancer. This article explored these needs through a qualitative study. Twenty-two semi-structured qualitative interviews and one focus group were conduc…
Cancer Care Team’s Management of Clinical Alerts Generated by Electronically Collected Patient Reported Outcomes
Electronically administered patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are effective digital health tools for informing clinicians about cancer patients' symptoms and facilitating timely patient-centred care. This paper describes the delivery of healthcare activities supported by the PROMPT-Care model, including ePROMs generated clinical alerts, cancer care team (CCT) response to alerts, and patients' perceptions of the CCT response and ePROMs sy…
Medicine (18 obras) · Nursing (12 obras) · Family medicine (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Environmental health (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Cancer survivorship and care (5 obras) · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (5 obras) · Health care (5 obras) · Population (5 obras)