Delivering psychological support remotely to people with brain tumours is on the agenda as part of a new study at Griffith University.
The world-first study – jointly funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council and Cancer Council Queensland – is led by Professor Tamara Ownsworth at Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland, and is using latest telehealth technology to enable people with brain tumour to receive tailored counselling in the comfort of their own homes.
The program, Making Sense of Brain Tumour (MAST) will employ Zoom videoconferencing technology to enable clinical psychologists to provide people with brain tumour and their families with targeted support addressing the specific issues they face related to the illness.
On average each day, 6 Australians are diagnosed with brain and other central nervous system cancers and 4 will die from such diseases. Each year in Australia approximately 1800 individuals, their partners and families find themselves facing the
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