Improvement of Information to Cancer Patients' Caregivers: a Randomised Intervention Study
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Bispebjerg Hospital
- Enrollment
- 211
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Satisfaction with information from health care professionals
Study Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patient 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
Arms & Interventions
Immediate intervention
Immediately after enrollment in the project, caregivers and patients receive the intervention
Intervention: Identification and provision of lacking information (Behavioral)
Delayed intervention (3 weeks later)
This group receives the same intervention as in the experimental group, but after the outcome assessment at 2 weeks
Intervention: Identification and provision of lacking information (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Satisfaction with information from health care professionals
Time Frame: Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks
Measure: The "Cancer Caregiving Tasks, Consequences and Needs Questionnaire" (CaTCoN) item 24
Secondary Outcomes
- Satisfaction with support from health care professionals(Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks)
- Fulfillment of needs(Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks)
- Satisfaction with information from health care professionals(Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks)
- Satisfaction with communication with health care professionals(Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks)
- Anxiety and depression(Change from baseline (enrollment) at 2 weeks)
Investigators
Mogens Groenvold
Professor, DMSc, PhD, MD
Bispebjerg Hospital