Development of an inter-professional screening instrument for cancer patients' education process.
AIM
The aim of this paper is to describe the development of an inter-professional screening instrument for cancer patients' cognitive resources, knowledge expectations and inter-professional collaboration within patient education.


DESIGN AND METHODS
Four empirical datasets during 2012-2014 were analyzed in order to identify main categories, subcategories and items for inter-professional screening instrument.


FINDINGS
Our inter-professional screening instrument integrates the critical moments of cancer patient education and the knowledge expectation types obtained from patient datasets to assessment of patients' cognitive resources, knowledge expectations and comprehension; and intra; and inter-professional.
['Vaartio-Rajalin|Heli|H|', 'Huumonen|Tuula|T|', 'Iire|Liisa|L|', 'Jekunen|Antti|A|', 'Leino-Kilpi|Helena|H|', 'Minn|Heikki|H|', 'Paloniemi|Jenni|J|', 'Zabalegui|Adelaida|A|']
D006801:Humans D007400:Interprofessional Relations D009369:Neoplasms D010353:Patient Education as Topic
Inter-professional collaboration Patient education Cancer care