This joint National Institutes of Health & National Cancer Institute FOA aims to stimulate research to evaluate the effect of care planning on cancer survivors’ health and psychosocial outcomes. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- What is the impact of survivorship care planning on cancer survivors’ post-treatment psychosocial and physiologic morbidity?
- What are the best constructs and outcomes for evaluating survivorship care planning and which metrics are best suited to measure these?
- What is the optimal timing for delivery of survivorship care planning?
- What is the effect of survivorship care planning on adherence to screening recommendations, preventive behaviors, and self-management of late and long-term effects of cancer?
- What systems, organizational and provider-level factors influence the generation, transmission, communication, usability, and ultimate consistent use of survivorship care plans?
- What systems, organizational and provider-level factors influence the generation, transmission, communication, usability, and ultimate consistent use of survivorship care plans?
- What economic strategies could encourage implementation of care planning?
Application budgets are not limited, but need to reflect the actual needs of the project. The maximum project period is 5 years. Deadlines follow the R01 research cycle, and applications are due February 5, June 5 and October 5 annually until January 8, 2016. For more information, see the link below: