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Cancer Information Your Way: Get What You Need to Make Your Decisions

Completed
Conditions
Cancer
Registration Number
NCT04592224
Lead Sponsor
University of Southampton
Brief Summary

People diagnosed with cancer may face many difficult decisions regarding their care and preferences. This may be particularly challenging when the cancer cannot be cured. It is therefore hugely important that patients have the information they need so that they can be involved in these decisions and in their care.

This qualitative interview study aims to hear from patients who might have found that the information they were given wasn't easy to understand, or who haven't been able to get involved in their care as much as they would have liked. We hope to learn from these experiences in order to improve the way patients are given information and supported to become involved in their care.

Detailed Description

Participants will be identified by healthcare professionals and invited to take part in a single interview either by phone or video call, lasting around an hour.

Interviews will be semi-structured and follow a topic guide, exploring how participants have been given information, how decisions have been made, and any particular challenges they may have faced.

Consent will also be sought for collection of demographic and disease data from the participant's medical record

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
21
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Semi-structured interviews1 year

To explore how best to support decision making by patients with lower health literacy receiving care for incurable cancer, acknowledging the implications COVID-19 will have for future care delivery.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Poole Hospital

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Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom

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