title: Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes to Rehabilitation Programming for Male Cancer Survivors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study is to describe and interpret the attitudes and conduct of hospital healthcare professionals (HCPs) in association with male cancer survivors and their municipal rehabilitation participation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted, consisting of participant observation and nine semistructured focus group interviews with 58 hospital HCPs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using interpretive description methodology with symbolic interaction as a theoretical framework, data were collected through fieldwork in three oncology wards in Denmark.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Attitudes about both gender and rehabilitation were identified as overarching obstructions within hospital HCP conduct toward promoting men's participation in cancer rehabilitation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gender and rehabilitation perceptions formed barriers in this context, suggesting that male cancer survivors' rehabilitation outcomes may be compromised by HCP attitudes and conduct.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings provide insight into approaches to guide HCPs to take responsibility for rehabilitation and to take gender into account in their work.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Handberg
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Midtgaard
authors.forename: Claus Vinther
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thorne
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lomborg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D000073116:Cancer Survivors / Q000523:psychology; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation