A Qualitative Study Into How Patients Deal With Chemotherapy-related Side Effects at Home

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exploration of How Patients Deal With Side Effects From Chemotherapy

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01867489

B322201214929

Details and patient eligibility

About

This qualitative study explores how patients deal with the side effects from chemotherapy at their home, what factors and ideas influence their symptom self-management and how professional caregivers contribute to the management of their symptoms at home. Data are collected through semi-structured interviews with adult patients treated with chemotherapy and analysed using a Grounded Theory approach.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult (≥18 years) patients with (any type and any stage of) cancer who were undergoing chemotherapy treatment in an ambulatory setting or during short hospital stays
• Dutch speaking
• Able to provide informed consent and to participate in an interview

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who were in the first 2 cycles of treatment
• Patients for whom an interview was considered physically, mentally and/or emotionally too burdensome.
• Patients who had reported not to experience any side effect from treatment at all

Trial design

28 participants in 1 patient group

Chemotherapy, Cancer

Description:

Adult cancer patients (with any type of cancer) being treated with chemotherapy

Treatment:

Other: No intervention