Sammanfattning
Even though adolescents and young adults with cancer represent the patients of the 21st century, they are often overseen in cancer care. This is also the case in research, where there is a lack of studies into the needs of young people, and into how health care professionals can support them adequately.
This article describes how the early steps of a practice based research project focusing on the young cancer patient have been initiated and established at the Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. The project involves the staff in all units, and includes three nursing research studies.
The objectives of the project are: 1. to develop knowledge about young cancer patients (aged 15-40 years), 2. to develop care and nursing to the target group, 3. to create better experiences of the collaboration between the general practitioner and the hospital/oncological department, 4. to create and test a model of collaboration between researchers and practitioners.
It is the authors’ intention to describe the progress of the study in forthcoming articles in Clinical Nursing.