title: [Psychooncological interventions - what do cancer patients aged 60 years or older wish for?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the acceptance of psychooncological interventions and predictors of subjective needs in cancer patients over 60 years of age.
  
  
  METHODS
  We examined 292 in- and outpatients (51% female, 51.7% aged over 60 years) from the Interdisciplinary Cancer Center of the University Hospital of Münster with a questionnaire designed to assess their wish to participate in various psychooncological interventions (FIPA) and with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D).
  
  
  RESULTS
  73.5 % of those over 60 years and 87.9 % of those under 60 years professed a wish for at least one specific psychooncological intervention. Higher age, lower levels of anxiety and cancer relapse were negative predictors of the readiness to attend psychooncological interventions (9 % variance explained). As to specific interventions, those aged 60 years or older showed lower acceptance only for relaxation techniques.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Readiness to attend psychooncological interventions was high with only marginal differences between the age groups. Because objective features of the patient and the disease resulted only in a low predictability of the subjective need for psychooncological interventions, routine screening of cancer patients seems an important issue.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster.
authors.forename: Carolin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schweer
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doering
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haier
authors.forename: Gereon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heuft
authors.forename: Fleur
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dugas
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D015897:Comorbidity; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012944:Social Support