Improvement of Information to Cancer Patients' Caregivers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Neoplasms
• Interventions: Behavioral: Identification and provision of lacking information

• Registration Number: NCT02380469
• Lead Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a systematic early assessment of uncovered needs for information, supplemented by an interview about the needs with the patient's nurse who seeks to provide the information requested, will improve the caregivers' and the patients' satisfaction with information and communication and potentially also decrease anxiety and depression.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2015-01-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-03-02
• Study First Posted: 2015-03-05
• Study Start: 2015-04
• Primary Completion: 2016-05
• Study Completion: 2016-08
• Status Verified: 2019-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-01-18
• Last Update Posted: 2019-01-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 211

Inclusion Criteria

• Cancer patient
• Newly refered to (i.e., this is the patient's first visit in) Department of Oncology, Herlev Hospital, in order to start medical treatment (e.g. chemotherapy)
• Written informed consent

Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:

• Attends the first visit in the Department of Oncology with the patient
• Has lacked information about at least one of the 13 aspects of information asked about in the questionnaire
• Written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient and/or caregiver do not understand Danish well enough to participate in the study
• The patient has an expected survival of less than six months

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Immediate intervention	Identification and provision of lacking information	Immediately after enrollment in the project, caregivers and patients receive the intervention
Delayed intervention (3 weeks later)	Identification and provision of lacking information	This group receives the same intervention as in the experimental group, but after the outcome assessment at 2 weeks

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Satisfaction with information from health care professionals	Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks	Measure: The "Cancer Caregiving Tasks, Consequences and Needs Questionnaire" (CaTCoN) item 24

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Satisfaction with information from health care professionals	Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks	Measure: CaTCoN subscale "Lack of information from health care professionals" (revised version)
Fulfillment of needs	Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks	Measure: Family Inventory of Needs (FIN)
Satisfaction with communication with health care professionals	Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks	Measure: CaTCoN subscale "Problems with the quality of information and communication from health care professionals"
Satisfaction with support from health care professionals	Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks	Measures: CaTCoN subscale "Need for help from health care professionals"
Anxiety and depression	Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks	Measure: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Oncology, Herlev Hospital; 🇩🇰 Herlev, Denmark