Developing a New Questionnaire About Patient Expectations of Breast Conserving Therapy

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: questionnaires; Behavioral: qualitative interviews with patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02753673

16-325

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop a questionnaire to measure patient expectations of breast-conserving therapy (breast-conserving surgery and radiation). This questionnaire will assist both surgeons and patients by helping provide valuable information to patients about what to expect during and after surgery.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female
• Age 18-75
• Patients who are scheduled to undergo lumpectomy at MSKCC as part of breast conserving therapy for invasive breast cancer OR who have completed BCT (lumpectomy and radiation) at least 6 months prior to recruitment

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to speak or understand English
• Inability to provide meaningful informed consent due to physical, cognitive, or psychiatric disability
• Patients undergoing lumpectomy without radiation

Trial design

22 participants in 1 patient group

Breast Cancer

Description:

The assessments are all qualitative. The assessments include an in-person, open-ended qualitative interview, during which the interviewer will use an interview guide to ensure that all relevant topics are discussed. Participants will also complete the Patient Expectations with Breast Reconstruction questionnaire using the think-aloud technique in order to identify which questions reflect the expectations of BCT patients, which questions need modification to reflect the expectations of BCT patients and which questions are not appropriate for BCT patients. The responses to the expectations questionnaire for this portion of the interview will not be recorded or analyzed; only the participants' thoughts and opinions about the questions will be recorded.

Treatment:

Behavioral: questionnaires

Behavioral: qualitative interviews with patients