Tailored Health Literacy Follow-up in Cancer - the Tail HealthLit Cancer Trial
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cancer
- Sponsor
- Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
- Enrollment
- 150
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- General Health literacy measured with the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- 3 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Health literacy refers to personal and relational factors affecting a persons ability to aquire, understand and use health information and health services. In a need assessment study, it was found that there is a need to focus on health literacy factors in the follow-up of people with cancer in the health care services.
Thus, this project evaluate the effect of a health literacy intervention in cancer. The intervention provides patients with nurse-led tailored follow-up by phone/digital/personal meetings that addresses their individual HL needs, particularly those needs that impact their quality of life, symptom burden, self-management, and health economic costs. Our main goal is to improve the patients' health literacy, with secondary goals of improving their quality of life, symptom burden, and self-management, and reducing their health care costs.
Investigators
Christine Råheim Borge
Researcher
Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Diagnosed with cancer
- •Above 18 years old
- •Receiving treatment at the main intervention hospital
Exclusion Criteria
- •Not diagnosed with cancer
- •Not above 18 years old
- •Not in treatment at the intervention hospital
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
General Health literacy measured with the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)
Time Frame: 6 months, 9 months
Change of Health Literacy questionnaire
Secondary Outcomes
- Self-Efficacy measured with the General Self-efficacy Scale (GSE)(6 months, 9 months)
- Disease specific Quality of Life measured with the The functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G)(6 months, 9 months)
- Electronic Health Literacy measured with the electronic Health Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ)(6 months, 9 months)
- Oral symptoms measured with four items selected from the European Organization for REsearch and Treatment of Cancer-oral health 15 (EORTC-OH 15)(6 months, 9 months)
- Health care costs measured through collecting data from patient medical records, patient self-report, and data registers(6 months, 9 months)
- General symptoms measured with the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS)(6 months, 9 months)
- Self-management measured with the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HeiQ)(6 months, 9 months)
- Generic health-related quality of life/quality adjusted life years measured by the EQ-5D(6 months, 9 months)