[Patients' perceptions of teleconsultation in long-term follow-up after pediatric cancer].
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For the past decade, "long-term follow-up consultations" have been established for adults cured of pediatric cancer to ensure the prevention, early detection, and treatment of long-term effects. These consultations are now sometimes conducted in the form of teleconsultations, a practice that has seen significant growth following the COVID-19 crisis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction, usefulness, and patient experience of teleconsultations conducted by an oncologist or hematologist as part of the long-term follow-up of adults cured of pediatric cancer. This is a descriptive multicenter study of a sample of adult patients cured of pediatric cancer who benefited from a long-term follow-up teleconsultation. After each teleconsultation, a satisfaction questionnaire was sent to the patient. Descriptive analyses were conducted for all variables, and bivariate analyses were performed between the variables of interest (satisfaction, trust, usefulness) and five covariates (gender, type of diagnosis, health status perception, education level, prior teleconsultation experience) using Fisher's exact test. Regarding the overall appreciation of their long-term follow-up teleconsultation experience, 73% of patients were very satisfied and 25% fairly satisfied. Notably, all of them were satisfied with the consultation time (88%), feeling that they were able to discuss the topics they wanted (83%). Consequently, 71% of patients expressed a desire to use teleconsultation in the future.