Evaluating Symptom Management Educational Materials for Patients With Prostate Cancer

Baylor College of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prostate Cancer

Treatments: Other: study of socioeconomic and demographic variables; Other: educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00769431

CDR0000600594

BCM-H-21622

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Collecting feedback from patients with prostate cancer may help doctors develop better symptom management educational materials for patients.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is evaluating symptom management educational materials for patients with prostate cancer.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

• To collect formative evaluation data about a new educational intervention using focus groups of patients with prostate cancer.
• To use the focus group data in the master's research paper of a Baylor College of Medicine physician-assistant student who is documenting the process of organizing and conducting the focus groups, enumerating areas where the new materials are deemed problematic, and identifying themes in the comments made by the focus group participants.

OUTLINE: Study participants are assigned to 1 of 3 focus groups according to educational level and ethnicity (i.e., lower educational-level African-American men primarily from the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center (MEDVAMC); lower educational-level Caucasian men from MEDVAMC, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), or the community; or higher educational-level Caucasian men primarily from BCM or the community).

Participants review written patient educational-intervention materials on prostate cancer and provide feedback to the investigator on the content and acceptability of these materials during a 1½-2-hour focus group discussion. Feedback data are used to revise the intervention materials so that they are appropriate to the target population.

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Biopsy-proven prostate cancer

  • Localized disease that has been previously treated

• Selected for participation from 1 of the following:

  • Convenience sample of men from the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Urology clinics at Scurlock Tower (including the Urology clinic at MEDVAMC) and local prostate cancer-support groups
  • Prostate cancer survivors who participated in the US TOO Father's Day Walk/Run or the Gay Pride Celebration

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Able to speak and read in English
• Willing to review the written patient educational materials and discuss them in a group setting

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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7 participants in 1 patient group

Focus group

No Intervention group

Treatment:

Other: study of socioeconomic and demographic variables

Other: educational intervention