title: Using a predictive model of clinician intention to improve continuing health professional education on cancer survivorship.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cancer survivorship is a chronic disease that places patients in limbo between oncologists and primary care clinicians. Strategies have been proposed to ease the shift in coordination of care, including broad-based educational outreach to primary care providers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Guided by the theory of planned behavior (TPB), predictors of intention to provide survivorship care, including credentials, experience, perception of barriers, and personal survivorship status, were evaluated using logistic regression with a cohort of physicians, nurse practitioners, and registered nurses participating in an unprecedented online continuing medical education/continuing education survivorship care course.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed that physicians were significantly less likely to express intent to provide survivorship care (odds ratio [OR] = .237, p = .0001) compared to the other groups. Overall, clinicians with 6-10 years of experience were 3 times more likely to express intent to provide survivorship care (OR = 2.86, p = .045) than those with less or more experience. When clinicians perceived the presence of a barrier, they were nearly twice as likely to have diminished intent (OR = 1.89, p = .035). Most participants (66%; n = 1185) selected two barriers: lack of survivorship care plans and treatment summaries (45.4%; n = 821) and lack of education (20.1%; n = 364).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Barriers to the delivery of survivorship care can influence clinicians' intention to provide survivorship care, which varied by years of experience in this study. Interdisciplinary educational strategies featuring midcareer provider champions who have successfully incorporated survivorship care and can offer specific solutions to these barriers are recommended for future interventions.
authors: S E
authors: SE
authors: Buriak
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Potter
authors: M Kathryn
authors: MK
authors: Bleckley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods; D004496:Education, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000639:trends*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D015996:Survival Rate
keywords: cancer survivors; cancer survivorship care; intention; interprofessional education; performance improvement; primary care education; profession-nurse; theory of planned behavior