Improving psychosocial outcomes for cancer carers: A pilot study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Gastrointestinal cancer; Public Health - Health service research; Cancer - Bowel - Back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon)

• Registration Number: ACTRN12609000452291
• Lead Sponsor: A/Prof Jane Young

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2009-06-12
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 44

Inclusion Criteria

Carers must be the *principal informal carer of a patient who has had a surgical procedure for poor prognosis gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal Duke's stage D, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, gall bladder, bile duct or small bowel). Carers must *have access to a telephone, *have sufficient English skills to participate, *are able to understand the study and give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

Carers without *access to a telephone or unable to use a telephone (eg due to deafness), *are cognitively impaired, *do not speak and read English to a level that would allow them to participate or *do not plan to reside in Australia for the next three months will be excluded from the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Feasibility. Feasibility of the intervention will be determined by assessing the number of calls required to achieve a successful intervention call. Mean, standard devaitions, median and range of time taken for calls at each time point will also be calculated.[Days 3, 17, 31, 45 and 59 after the patient's hospital discharge.];Acceptability. Acceptability will be assessed by ascertaining the proportion of carers who complete each call at each time point. Demographic and clinical characteristics of carers allocated to the intevrention group who did or did not accpet or complete each call will be compared to assess the acceptability. Furthermore, qualitative semi-structured interviews will be conducted at 3 months following the patient's hopital discharge and when the intervention is complete in order to gather detailed feedback of participant's views of the intervention.[Days 3, 17, 31, 45 and 59 after the patient's hospital discharge.]