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CAP'Onco : Psychological and Social Consultation of Professional Accompaniment in Oncology

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Cancer
Interventions
Other: Psychological and Social Consultation
Registration Number
NCT03302767
Lead Sponsor
Institut Bergonié
Brief Summary

This patient support system is designed to help patients regain their professional activity after their treatment. It's a 3-Axis neuropsycho-social synergy on 3 axes:

* A weekly pluridisciplinary consultation in tandem (Social worker + Psychologist / Neuropsychologist)

* Monthly information meetings and workshops (TIC'Onco reunions: collective information times and Cogit'Onco workshops: cognitive workshops

* An information booklet "Prepare the work return" The aim of this research is to evaluate efficiency in term of quality of life improvement linked to work status, utility, feasibility and patients' satisfaction.

The aim of this research is to evaluate efficiency in term of quality of life improvement linked to work status, utility, feasibility and patients' satisfaction.

Detailed Description

Unmet need characterize in 4 points:

* Cancer and survival: challenges for cancer patients who want to work while being treated

* Cancer and career: Job instability for cancer patients

* Difficulties and isolation of patients due to a lack of coordination between healthcare professionals and colleagues/management

* Post-treatment cognitive troubles stress and hindered patient return to employment: chemo brain This research-action will propose and evaluate a concrete device: To maintain a professional activity with the support of CAP'Onco during treatment, to balance between quality of life, managing the "cancer event" and the psychosocial consequences for professional experience, to provide an early, durable and multimodal support to improve work keeping and anticipate return to employment

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
29
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients attending the Institut Bergonié
  • Informed Consent signed.
  • Patients affiliated to a French social
  • living in Gironde
  • Professional activity at the time of diagnosis
  • Treated for - breast cancer, Hodgkin's or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (non-cerebral), testicular cancer
  • CURATIVE support
  • At any time during treatment (chemotherapy or radiotherapy, or immunotherapy)
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patient deprived of liberty or subject to a legal protection measure
  • History of cancers
  • Cerebral pathology and / or brain metastasis

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Psychological and Social ConsultationPsychological and Social ConsultationPsychological and Social Consultation
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Quality of Life : EORTC QLQ-C30 ScoresAt baseline and 5 months

Standardised QLQ-C30 scoring according to EORTC scoring manual (Fayers et al. EORTC QLQ-C30 scoring manual. 2001).

15 dimensions are presented below. Each dimension is a standardised score ranges from 0 to 100. A low score corresponds to a low functional level, an absence of symptoms or a low level of QoL/ overall health and, conversely, so that a high score corresponds to a high functional level, a high presence of symptoms or a high level of QoL/overall health.

Cognitive Complaints : FACT Cog Scale ScoresAt baseline and 5 months

Cognitive complaints were evaluated by using the french Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function (FACT-Cog) scale version 3

Assessed using median total score (range 0-132) and median scores of these 4 dimensions :

* Perceived Cognitive Impairment (range 0-72)

* Impact on quality of life (range 0-16)

* Comments from others (range 0-16)

* Perceived Cognitive Skills (range 0-28) Higher scores indicate better cognitive functioning.

Professional Recovery Scale ScoresAt baseline and 5 months

Professional recovery was evaluated by using the Scale of motivation to Professional recovery.

This scale was constructed for the needs of this exploratory research and has for vocation a later validation.

It includes 62 questions and was assessed using median scores of these 7 dimensions :

* Work and administrative process (0-100)

* Positioning in relation to the job-post-mission (0-100)

* Emotion and work (0-100)

* Labour relations (0-100)

* Work and physical/intellectual conditions (0-100)

* Privacy and work (0-100)

* Return to work (0-20) Higher scores represent better outcomes

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Tiredness : Piper MFI-20 Scale ScoresAt baseline and 5 months

Tiredness was evaluated by using the Piper Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) revised scale

Assessed using median total score (range 0-10) and median scores of these 4 tiredness dimensions :

* Behavioural

* Emotional

* Sensory

* Cognitive-mood Each dimension has range 0-10 with following interpretation: higher scores indicate greater severity of fatigue

Anxio-depressive Troubles : HAD Scale ScoresAt baseline and 5 months

Anxio-depressive troubles were evaluated by using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale.

Assessed using median scores of these 2 dimensions :

* Anxiety

* Depression Each dimension has range 0-21 with following interpretation: higher scores represent worse outcomes (0-7 normal; 8-10 mild; 11-14 moderate; 15-21 severe)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut Bergonié

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Bordeaux, France

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