Terms compared within each included study
Study, country | Patient | Client | Consumer | Service user/user | Customer | Survivor | Person seeking healthcare | Person with condition* | Other term/s |
Anczewska et al, 74 Poland | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Aukst-Margetić et al, 32 Croatia | x¶ | x | x | ||||||
Baskett,75 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | x | ||||
Batra and Lilford,43 UK | x | x | x | x | x¶ | ||||
Byrne et al, 76 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Covell et al, 15 USA | x | x¶ | x | x | x | ||||
Cybulska,34 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Deber et al, 31 Canada | x¶ | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Denning et al, 26 Australia | x¶ | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Dickens and Picchioni,19 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | x | ||||
Elliott and White,44 New Zealand | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Heffernan,63 UK | x¶ | x | x | ||||||
Keaney et al, 77 UK | x¶ | x | x | ||||||
Lloyd et al, 46 Australia | x | x¶ | x | ||||||
Loudon et al, 47 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | x | ||||
Magnezi et al, 48 Israel | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Mariotto et al, 14 Italy | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
McGuire-Snieckus et al, 42 UK† | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Mueser et al, 70 USA | x | x¶ | x | x | |||||
Nair,78 Australia | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Nair et al, 79 Australia | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Probert,35 UK | x¶ | x | x | ||||||
Ramdass et al, 80 Trinidad and Tobago | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Ritchie et al, 33 UK | x¶ | x | |||||||
Sharma et al, 45 UK and Canada | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Sim et al, 41 Ireland | x | x | x | x¶ | |||||
Simmons et al, 29 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | |||||
Swift et al, 81 UK and Ireland | x¶ | x | x | ||||||
Thalitaya et al, 16 UK‡ | x¶ | x¶ | x | x | x | ||||
Turner et al, 82 UK | x¶ | x | x | ||||||
Upton et al, 49 UK | x¶ | x | x | x | x | x | |||
Wing,30 USA | x¶ | x | |||||||
Wittich et al 83 USA | x¶ | x | x | x |
Survivorship studies | |||||||||
Patient | Ex-patient | Person/someone who has had cancer | Cancer conqueror | Survivor/Cancer survivor | Victim | Someone with cancer | Other term/s | ||
Bellizzi and Blank,50 USA | x | x¶ | x | x | x | ||||
Chambers et al, 51 Australia | x | x | x¶ | x | |||||
Cho and Park,55 USA | x | x¶ | x | x | x | ||||
Deimling et al, 54 USA | x | x | x¶ | x | |||||
Deimling et al,85 USA | x | x | x¶ | x | |||||
Kelly et al, 53 USA | x | x | x | x | None of the descriptors¶ | ||||
Morris et al, 52 Australia and USA§ | x | x¶ | x¶ | x | x | ||||
Park et al, 84 USA | x | x | x¶ | x | x |
*Includes ‘pregnant woman’.
†’Patient' preferred in all subgroups except social workers (’client' preferred); for occupational therapists, ’patient' and ’client' were equally most preferred.
‡’Client' preferred before terms were defined, ’patient' preferred after terms were defined.
§’Person who has/had cancer' preferred by patients with prostate cancer (study 1), ’cancer survivor' preferred by patients with breast cancer (study 2).
¶Term was most-preferred in this study.