Poster Presentation 2025 Joint Meeting of the COSA ASM and IPOS Congress

Understanding knowledge, attitudes, barriers, and facilitators toward accessing prehabilitation among Chinese and Vietnamese speaking cancer survivors in Australia. (126357)

James Murray 1 , Darren Haywood 1 , Nicolas H Hart 1 , Ashfaq Chauhan 2 , Carolyn Ee 3 , Suzanne Grant 3 , Eric Yeung 4
  1. University of Technology Sydney, Moore Park, NSW, Australia
  2. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  3. Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  4. CanRevive, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Objectives/purpose

Prehabilitation represents interventions that support and optimise physical, nutritional, and psychological wellbeing before cancer treatment. However, there is little-to-no research exploring the implementation of prehabilitation interventions in culturally and linguistically diverse cancer survivors. As such, the purpose of this study is to understand knowledge of, and attitudes towards, prehabilitation, and barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging in prehabilitation, in Chinese and Vietnamese cancer survivors in Australia.

Methods

This study will employ a mixed methods design. Chinese or Vietnamese cancer survivors in Australia (n=100), who’s preferred language spoken is Cantonese, Mandarin, or Vietnamese, will complete an online quantitative survey informed by the theory of planned behaviour, to understand their knowledge of, and attitudes towards, prehabilitation. In parallel, three focus groups, consisting of ~5 participants (one focus group per language group) will be performed to understand barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with prehabilitation interventions. All research tools (i.e., participant information, online survey) will be translated into Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese, with focus groups facilitated alongside a language specific bi-lingual interpreter. Quantitative data will be summarised descriptively, with qualitative data thematically analysed.

Results

Data collection is currently in progress (expected completion date September 2025). Results from preliminary analyses to be presented at COSA-IPOS 2025.

Conclusion and clinical implications

Findings from this work will foster the future development of co-designed prehabilitation interventions for culturally and linguistically diverse cancer survivors in Australia. Future co-designed prehabilitation interventions arising from this research will develop knowledge of the benefits of prehabilitation interventions in culturally and linguistically diverse populations, and, given the established benefits of prehabilitation on health and wellbeing in cancer survivors more broadly, may contribute to reducing the care gap and inequity of health-related cancer outcomes between people of culturally and linguistically diverse and Anglo Australian backgrounds.