Improving psychosocial outcomes for patients with poor prognosis gastrointestinal cancer and their carers: A randomised controlled trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Gastrointestinal cancer; Cancer - Bowel - Back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon); Cancer - Stomach; Cancer - Oesophageal (gullet)

• Registration Number: ACTRN12609000920291
• Lead Sponsor: A/Prof Jane Young

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2009-10-26
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

Carers must be the *principal informal carer of a patient who has had a surgical procedure for poor prognosis gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal Duke's stage D, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, gall bladder, bile duct or small bowel). Carers must *have access to a telephone, *have sufficient English skills to participate, *are able to understand the study and give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

Carers without *access to a telephone or unable to use a telephone (eg due to deafness), *are cognitively impaired, *do not speak and read English to a level that would allow them to participate or *do not plan to reside in Australia for the next three months will be excluded from the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified