Strategies for promoting cancer survivors’ return to work: an integrative literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Elaine Cristina Lopes da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ildefonso, Ana Paula Rocha, Faria, Magda Guimarães de Araujo, Vargens, Octavio Muniz da Costa, Mininel, Vivian Aline, Gallasch, Cristiane Helena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Advances in Nursing and Health
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/anh/article/view/42566
• topic: Neoplasms; Cancer Survivors; Return to Work; Occupational Health Nursing; Occupational Health.; Neoplasías; Superviventes de Cáncer; Reinserción al Trabajo; Enfermería del Trabajo; Salud Laboral; Neoplasias; Sobreviventes de Câncer; Retorno ao Trabalho; Enfermagem do Trabalho; Saúde do Trabalhador.

Objective: Toidentify strategies to promote maintenance and return to work for cancer survivors in different countries. Method: This is an integrative literature review carried out between October 2020 and January 2021, without time frame, using the Lilacs, PubMed, CINAHL and PsycINFO databases, and the descriptors “Neoplasms”, “Return to Work”, “Survivorship” and the keywords “Strategy”. Results: No national publications were identified. The identified strategies are related to communication and guidance of workers and the work team, multidisciplinary work in healthcare and adaptations in the workplace. Conclusion: There is a need and feasibility to implement actions based on international scientific evidence, favoring the maintenance or return to work after cancer diagnosis, with planning that includes the health team, employers, supervisors and work team. Assessments are needed from the time of hospitalization, until after reintegration into the workplace, with workplace adaptations that require feasible organizational planning, involving adaptations of workstations, flexible workloads and hours to attend consultations and necessary therapies. Although not described, nursing work is essential both from a clinical and occupational perspective.