A trial to see how educational websites for cancer doctors, nurses, patients and family carers affect family carer involvement medical consultations.
- Conditions
- CancerCancer - Any cancer
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12619001507178
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of Sydney
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 676
For clinicians:
•Hospital-based medical/radiation/surgical nurses and oncologists treating cancer patients.
•Nurses must have ongoing patient contact
•Have consultations with patients (and their family carers) to discuss cancer treatment
•Willing to participate in the study.
For patients:
•Aged over 18 years
•Diagnosed with cancer of any type
•Attending their first, second or third oncology consultation with a participating clinician
•Are accompanied to consultations by a family carer
•Having Internet access
•Willing to participate in the study.
For family carers:
•Are a person related to a participating patient biologically, legally, or emotionally who supports the patient inside and outside a consultation
•Aged over 18 years
•Having Internet access
•Willing to participate in the study.
For clinicians:
•In the case of doctors and nurses who work together within a site, either but not both may be recruited.
For patients:
•If their clinician considers them too unwell to participate
•If their family carer does not consent to participate in the study
•Insufficient English language skills to complete the intervention and/or questionnaires.
For family carers:
•If the patient for whom they are a carer does not consent to participate in the study
•Insufficient English language skills to complete the intervention and/or questionnaires.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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