COVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information

Mauri, Davide; Kamposioras, Konstantinos; Tsali, Lampriani; Dambrosio, Mario; De Bari, Berardino; Hindi, Nadia; Salembier, Carl; Nixon, Joanna; Dimitrios, Tzachanis; Alongi, Flippo; Hameed, Hassan; Valachis, Antonios; Papadimitriou, Konstantinos; Corradini, Stefanie; Popovic, Lazar; Kopecky, Jindrich; Rodriguez, Andres; Antunac, Katarina; Yi, Junlin; Lovey, Jozsef; Strojan, Primoz; Saraireh, Haytham; Rotterud, Ranveig; Chojnacka, Marzanna; Olalla, Santa Cruz; Chilingirova, Natalia; De Mello, Ramon Andrade; Araujo Amaral, Giovanna; Arbabi, Farsid; Vidra, Radu; Rapushi, Erjeta; Takeuchi, Dan; Christopoulos, Chirstos; Ivanova, Irina; Djan, Igor; Petricevic, Branka; Cellini, Francesco; Mihaylova, Iglika; Dedic Plavetic, Natalija; Grasic Kuhar, Cvetka; Takeuchi, Elena; Kountourakis, Pantelis; Ntellas, Panagiotis; Gazouli, Ioanna; Gkoura, Stefania; Yuce, Salih; Er, Ozlem; Yasmina, Chait; Kumaran, Gireesh; Spahiu, Orges; Yusuf, Aasim; Gono, Paulina; Apostolidis, Kathi und Tolia, Maria (2022): COVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information. In: Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials, Bd. 17, Nr. 1: S. 11-14

Abstract

Background: Covid-19 vaccination has started in the majority of the countries at the global level. Cancer patients are at high risk for infection, serious illness, and death from COVID-19 and need vaccination guidance and support. Guidance availability in the English language only is a major limit for recommendations' delivery and their application in the world's population and generates information inequalities across the different populations. Methods: Most of the available COVID-19 vaccination guidance for cancer patients was screened and scrutinized by the European Cancer Patients Coalition (ECPC) and an international oncology panel of 52 physicians from 33 countries. Results: A summary guidance was developed and provided in 28 languages in order to reach more than 70 percent of the global population. Conclusion: Language barrier and e-guidance availability in the native language are the most important barriers when communicating with patients. E-guidance availability in various native languages should be considered a major priority by international medical and health organizations that are communicating with patients at the global level.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 1574-8871
• Sprache: Englisch