A Comparison of the Attitudes About Legalization of Marijuana Use for Medical Purposes by Cancer Patients in Two Cancer Centers Located in a Legalized and a Non-Legalized State
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 103
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Positive attitude regarding the legalization of medical marijuana for medical purposes
研究概览
简要总结
This trial studies attitudes about legalization of marijuana use in participants with cancer. Questionnaires may help doctors to learn about and compare the attitudes that patients in non-legalized and legalized states have towards the legalization of medical marijuana.
详细描述
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To compare the proportion of cancer patients' who have a positive attitude about legalizing marijuana for medical purposes between those in a legalized versus (vs.) a non-legalized state.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate the association of cancer patients' belief in the usefulness of medical marijuana in their state of residency (Texas versus Arizona).
II. To examine the association of demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients and their perception of medical marijuana.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients (inpatient or outpatient) seen by the Palliative Care team at Banner MD Anderson or UT MD Anderson
- •Patients able to speak and read English
- •Patients enrolled in each site must be a resident of the state where that site is located (e.g. if a patient is enrolled at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center [MDACC], they should be resident of the state of Texas)
- •Patients should have a cancer diagnosis
排除标准
- •Patients who are not able to speak or read English
- •Altered mental status as determined by the interviewer based on the ability to understand the nature of the study and consent process
结局指标
主要结局
Positive attitude regarding the legalization of medical marijuana for medical purposes
时间窗: Up to 1 year
Will be defined as answering "Completely Agree" or "Slightly Agree" to the question 1 in Marijuana Survey for Patients. The number of subjects with positive attitude towards legalizing medical marijuana will be compared between patients from Texas and Arizona States using one-sided Fisher's exact test or chi-squared test, whichever appropriate. A logistic model will be used to assess the effect of state of residency, adjusting for other covariates such as gender, age, race, etc. Will employ inverse probability of state weighting using the propensity score on all patients to estimate the difference in attitudes of marijuana use between the states. In the weighted sample, will also compute the standardized differences to evaluate the balance of baseline covariates between the two states. The propensity score model may be adjusted to further minimize some of the residual difference in the distribution of the baseline covariates between the two states.
次要结局
- Participants' belief in the usefulness of medical marijuana between those who are residents of Texas versus Arizona(Up to 1 year)
- Perception of medical marijuana(Up to 1 year)