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Table 2 TEMPO Health Library Topics of the 49 Factsheets

From: A study protocol for a multicenter randomized pilot trial of a dyadic, tailored, web-based, psychosocial, and physical activity self-management program (TEMPO) for men with prostate cancer and their caregivers

Communicating with your health care team (n = 6)

Treatment decision making (n = 6)

Dealing with stress and worry (n = 5)

1. Knowing what to expect after a cancer diagnosis or treatment

2. Asking questions to the health care team

3. Knowing the role of the different health professionals involved

4. Understanding what the health care professionals are telling us

5. Having our main concerns addressed during appointments

6. Telling the health care professionals what is going on

1. Making decisions about treatment

2. We do not have enough options

3. Do not understand enough

4. Telling the health care team which decisions we want

5. Feeling pressured to make decisions

6. Managing stress due to treatment-related delays

1. Feeling tense, anger, or stress

2. Feeling worried or uncertain

3. Feeling sad, down, or isolated

4. Feeling unmotivated or low on energy

5. Feeling overwhelmed

Supporting each other

(n = 6)

Getting the support you need (n = 7)

Wanting to feel more fit and healthy (n = 9)

1. Helping each other feel better

2. Talking about the hard stuff

3. Dealing with conflict

4. Stressed by the changes in our roles and responsibilities

5. Feeling less connected to each other

6. We are different in how much we want to talk about the situation

1. Knowing where to go for more supporta

2. Getting more information about cancer and treatment

3. Asking for help from the right health professionals

4. Needing more help at home

5. Getting emotional support

6. Finding financial help

7. Finding legal help

1. Fitting physical activity into our day

2. Exercising and being physically active safely

3. Wanting to be physically active on a budget

4. Getting ideas about how to get physically active

5. Knowing how much physical activity

6. Becoming or staying motivated to do physical activity

7. Knowing how to use a pedometer

8. Knowing how to do resistance training at home

9. Aerobic exercises at home

Getting on top of symptoms

(n = 7)

Caregiving

(n = 3)

 

1. Pain

2. Fatigue

3. Loss of appetite

4. Diarrhea

5. Incontinence

6. Erectile dysfunction

7. Symptom diary

1. Canadian Cancer Society pages on caregiving

2. Canadian Cancer Society pages on support for caregivers

3. Video testimonial from a caregiver, hosted by the Canadian Cancer Society

 
  1. aSample factsheet of “Knowing where to go for more support” is included in Supplementary Material S3. Each factsheet uses a similar format and is similar in length