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Table 1 EXCELS Intervention “High Tech” and “High Touch” Components

From: Rationale and design of extended cancer education for longer term survivors (EXCELS): a randomized control trial of ‘high touch’ vs. ‘high tech’ cancer survivorship self-management tools in primary care

EXCELS – Website Tool

EXCELS – Health Coaching

Home Page: Provide information on

 • General health and cancer follow-up

• Managing symptoms, late and long term effects

Call 1: Introduction to EXCELS health coaching

 • Introduction to cancer follow-up

 • Survivorship Symptom Tracker

 • Directed learning to symptom specific health topics

Recommendations: Tailored information on

 • Cancer surveillance and screening

 • General health

 • Symptom awareness

Call 2: Cancer survivorship wellness planner

 • Cancer surveillance

 • Late and long-term effects

 • General health

To-do List:

 • Survivors view personalized health exams and screenings

 • Tracks past and future survivorship appointments

Call 3: Set wellness SMART goals

 • How to do it

 • Priority goals

 • Steps to achieve goals

My Healthcare Team:

 • Lists healthcare providers and corresponding preventive health appointments and developed questions

Call 4: Evaluate SMART goals

 • How to do it

 • Priority goals

 • Steps to achieve goals

Learn and Prepare:

 • Information related to diverse health topics

 • Healthy Lifestyle and coping

 • Develop questions to ask their providers regarding health topics, symptoms, and healthy lifestyle