Tailored Health Literacy Follow-up in Cancer

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: Tailored Health Literacy follow-up in cancer

• Registration Number: NCT05627180
• Lead Sponsor: Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-11-23
• Study First Posted: 2022-11-25
• Status Verified: 2023-03
• Study Start: 2023-03-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-03-30
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-03
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-31
• Study Completion: 2026-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
The Intervention Group	Tailored Health Literacy follow-up in cancer	The intervention group will receive a tailored intervention based on each individuals health literacy needs. A project nurse with broad experience in cancer care will be trained in Motivational Interviewing techniques to provide follow-up for the patients in the intervention group in a period of 9 months.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
General Health literacy measured with the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)	6 months, 9 months	Change of Health Literacy questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-Efficacy measured with the General Self-efficacy Scale (GSE)	6 months, 9 months	Change of Self-efficacy questionnaire
Disease specific Quality of Life measured with the The functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G)	6 months, 9 months	Change of quality of life questionnaire
Electronic Health Literacy measured with the electronic Health Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ)	6 months, 9 months	Change of electronic Health Literacy questionnaire
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	Change in oral symptoms
Health care costs measured through collecting data from patient medical records, patient self-report, and data registers	6 months, 9 months	Change of health care costs
General symptoms measured with the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS)	6 months, 9 months	Change of symptom burden questionnaire
Self-management measured with the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HeiQ)	6 months, 9 months	Change of self-management questionnaire
Generic health-related quality of life/quality adjusted life years measured by the EQ-5D	6 months, 9 months	Change in health related quality of life and adjusted life years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital; 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway