The preparation of cancer patients for further outpatient treatment - assessment of symptom distress of patients in dependency on communication and subjective stress of medical practitioners

• Conditions: C00-C97; F30-F39; F40-F48; Malignant neoplasms; Mood [affective] disorders; Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders

• Registration Number: DRKS00014055
• Lead Sponsor: Psychosoziale Krebsberatungsstelle, Tumorzentrum CCCF, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-04-05
• Study Completion: 2018-07-13
• Results First Posted: 2020-02-28
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 62

Inclusion Criteria

Precondition for participation is that patients are oncological patients during in-patient stay and are imminent to hospital discharge. The participation is only possible, if the patients' Karnofsky score is above 60. Sufficient knowledge in German.

Exclusion Criteria

If the medical practitioners that treat the participating patients don't participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Symptom distress shall be measured with a modified German Version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (Portenoy et al., 1994, German version: Spichiger et al., 2011). Anxiety and depressive symptoms are captured with the modified German version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS; Zigmond & Snaith, 1983; German version: Herrmann-Lingen, Buss & Snaith, 2011). Symptom distress, anxiety and depressive symptoms are captured before the discharge consultation, after the discharge consultation before discharge and after discharge.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The progress of symptom distress, anxiety and depressive symptoms between the measurements 1 and 2 shall be ascertained as differences between the times of measurements based on the results of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (Spichiger et al., 2011) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (Herrmann-Lingen, Buss & Snaith, 2011). <br>For capturing the patients' evaluation of communication, a modified German version of the Communication Assessment Tool (Makoul, Krupat, & Chang, 2007, German version) is used. The data is captured after the discharge consultation. <br>Medical practitioners distress is captured with a visual analogue scale before the discharge consultation.