TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birkhoff, Susan
AU  - Donovan Heidi, Lee Young Ji
TI  - Identifying oncology caregivers' pretreatment educational and emotional needs to inform future virtual reality educational interventions
SN  - 0360-4039
KW  - education, nursing, oncology, virtual reality
N1  - Purpose: To identify oncology caregivers' unmet educational needs for the
development of a virtual reality experience.
Methods: A qualitative descriptive methodology was used; data were collected via online surveys.
Results: Eighteen participants said their educational experiences were overwhelming and emotionally exhausting. They suggested a need to deliver educational information through different modalities and provide more clinician-based resources and support.
Conclusion: This study identified opportunities to complement traditional pretreatment education tailored to the caregivers' needs and experiences, such as specific procedural information and emotional management while being a caregiver. Creating virtual reality experiences exclusively for oncology caregivers is a novel nurse-led approach that is currently not in existence
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