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Exploration of the Relationship Between Sexual Health and Pain in the Context of Cancer in France

Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Pain
Survivorship
Cancer
Interventions
Other: Pain screening
Registration Number
NCT06508411
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Brief Summary

The goal of this observational study is to explore the relationship between pain and sexual health in the context of cancer (cancer patients and cancer survivors). The main question it aims to answer is:

- Does pain interfere with sexual health in cancer patients and cancer survivors?

Detailed Description

Participants will be recruited through French cancer patient associations and will be invited to complete an online survey questionnaire, exploring:

* Sexual health and sexual satisfaction

* Pain severity and impact on daily activities

* Neuropathic pain

* Migraine

* Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

* Quality of life, functioning, and symptoms

* Anxiety and depression

* Sociodemographic characteristics of patients

* Oncological characteristics

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1000
Inclusion Criteria
  • Declaring themselves to be suffering from or having suffered from cancer recruited as such via appropriate communication systems (patient associations and social networks, etc.)
Exclusion Criteria
  • No command of the French language
  • Residence outside France (verified with the department of residence in the questionnaire)
  • Patient Companion
  • Protected adult

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
cancer patients and survivorsPain screeningIndividuals who self-identify as cancer patients or cancer survivors
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sexual satisfactionday 1

SHQ-C22 questionnaire - Sexual Health Questionnaire (Scores from 0 to 100 better)

presence of painday 1

BPI-SF questionnaire - Brief Pain Inventory short from (scores from 0 to 10 worse)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sexual satisfactionday 1

Visual analog scale (Scores from 0 to 10 better)

Quality of the sexual healthday 1

SHQ-C22 questionnaire - Sexual Health Questionnaire (Scores from 0 to 100 better to worse depending of the items)

Pain severity and characteristicsday 1

BPI-SF questionnaire - Brief Pain Inventory short from (scores from 0 to 10 worse)

Presence of neuropathic painday 1

DN4 interview questionnaire - neuropathique pain 4 questions (scores from 0 to 7 worse)

Presence of migraineday 1

Items of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (typical headache that lasted 4-72 h without treatment, at least two of four typical headache characteristics (unilateral, pulsatile, pain intensity ≥4/10 on the visual analogue scale for pain, increase in pain with physical activity), at least one of two types of non pain-associated symptoms (nausea and/or vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia))

Severity of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (sensory and motor)day 1

QLQ-CIPN20 questionnaire - chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (scores from 0 to 100 worse)

Assessment of the quality of lifeday 1

QLQ-C30 questionnaire - quality of life questionnaire (scores from 0 to 100 better)

Assessment of the functioning dimensionsday 1

QLQ-C30 questionnaire - quality of life questionnaire (scores from 0 to 100 better)

Assessment of the severity of symptomsday 1

QLQ-C30 questionnaire - quality of life questionnaire (scores from 0 to 100 worse)

Sociodemographic characteristics - age of patientsday 1

age (years)

Sociodemographic characteristics - genderday 1

male, female, non binary

Sociodemographic characteristics - body mass indexday 1

body mass index (kg/m²)

Sociodemographic characteristics - use of alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarette, cannabis;day 1

use of alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarette, cannabis (yes / no, yearly, monthly, weekly, daily)

Sociodemographic characteristics - marital statusday 1

married; Single with occasional partner; Single without occasional partner

Sociodemographic characteristics - socioprofesional statusday 1

Farmer ; Artisan ; Merchants/entrepreneurs ; White-collar professionals ; Intermediate professions ; Employees ; Workers ; Retirees ; Unemployed individuals

Sociodemographic characteristics - living areaday 1

French department of living

Oncological characteristics - past and/or ongoing treatmentday 1

currently being treated for cancer ; treated for cancer (today in remission and completed cancer treatments) ; treated for cancer (today cancer still present and treatments against cancer stopped)

Oncological characteristics - type of cancerday 1

Breast ; Prostate ; Pulmonary ; Blood ; Gynecological ; Kidney ; Colorectal ; Others

Oncological characteristics - date of cancer diagnosisday 1

date (mm/yyyy)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU Clermont-Ferrand

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

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