A Theoretical Model of Financial Burden After Cancer Diagnosis

Overview

Journal Future Oncol

Specialty Oncology

Date 2020 Sep 25

PMID 32976048

Citations 15

Authors

Salene Mw Jones

Nora B Henrikson

Laura Panattoni

Karen L Syrjala

Veena Shankaran

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Abstract

Current models of financial burden after cancer do not adequately define types of financial burden, moderators or causes. We propose a new theoretical model to address these gaps. This model delineates the components of financial burden as material and psychological as well as healthcare-specific (affording treatment) versus general (affording necessities). Psychological financial burden is further divided into worry about future costs and rumination about past and current financial burden. The model hypothesizes costs and employment changes as causes, and moderators include precancer socioeconomic status and post-diagnosis factors. The model outlines outcomes affected by financial burden, including depression and mortality. Theoretically derived measures of financial burden, interventions and policy changes to address the causes of financial burden in cancer are needed.

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