Acupuncture service for supportive care in a day oncology unit — ASN Events

Acupuncture service for supportive care in a day oncology unit (#857)

Chris McKeon 1
  1. Mater Health Services, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 This presentation is about the acupuncture service in the Mater Adults Hospital Brisbane and the evaluation of the service. The service has have been operating for 2 years at the time of this presentation. I will be presenting the data collected for the last 12 months which has included changes to the survey tool identified after the first 6 month review. This will include uptake and usage of the service and the data obtained from research of the evaluation of the service. The evaluation of the service consists of a survey completed by the patients after one month of treatment, covering symptom/s treated, benefits, adverse events, should the service continue, use of other complementary medicine and qualitative data. The changes were to data collected on adverse events, medications and treatments used for the symptoms and changes in usage after acupuncture and the inclusion of MYCaW (Measure Your Concerns and Wellbeing) (1) a tool designed for evaluating complementary therapies in cancer support care.

  1. 1. Paterson C, Thomas K, Manasse A, Cooke H, Peace G. Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing (MYCaW): An individualised questionnaire for evaluating outcome in cancer support care that includes complementary therapies. Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 2007;15(1):38-45.1.