癌症护理中的心理社会支持研究和发表的状况远不及身体支持。这种支持类型包括病人和亲人的心理、情感、社交和精神需求。本质量改进项目为那些希望了解何种因素能帮助癌症患者应对门诊放疗期间的人提供了见解。该项目的目的是了解哪些做法有助于患者在门诊外部放疗过程中应对，以增加未来接受门诊外部放疗的癌症患者心理社会支持的关注度。该项目的见解被用于为Novant Health癌症研究所创建资源手册，以帮助提高对门诊放疗患者在情感和精神上的支持的意识、讨论和关注。

Psychosocial support in cancer care has not been researched or published to the degree of physical support. This type of support includes the mental, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of patients and loved ones. This quality improvement project provides insight for those seeking understanding of what exactly helps cancer patients cope during outpatient radiation therapy treatments. The purpose of this project was to learn what practices benefit patient's coping during outpatient external radiation therapy treatments in order to increase attention given to psychosocial support of future cancer patients receiving outpatient external radiation therapy treatments. Insight from this project was used to create a resource handout for Novant Health Cancer Institute to help increase awareness, discussion, and attention to supporting outpatient radiation therapy patients emotionally and spiritually.