Focus Group Interview Study on Patient Experiences and Satisfaction (RT_Focus)

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Patient Preference; Patient Satisfaction

Treatments: Other: Focus group interview

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04625842

2020-087

Details and patient eligibility

About

In order to improve quality of care at the department, the investigators will perform a focus group interview study with patients and family members. They will perform 6 (3 in the French, and 3 in the Dutch language) focus group interviews with patients and 6 (3 in the French, and 3 in the Dutch language) with family members.

Full description

In order to improve quality of care at the department, the investigators will perform a focus group interview study with patients and family members. They will perform 6 (3 in the French, and 3 in the Dutch language) focus group interviews with patients and 6 (3 in the French, and 3 in the Dutch language) with family members. Following research questions will be answered:

• What elements of care (ie infrastructure, interpersonal contact, information, communication) are good to the opinion of patients and family members?
• What elements of care can be improved?
• What are priorities in improvement of the care for patients and families?
• What actions could possibly be taken in order to improve the care for future patients?

Because the radiotherapy ward exists of 3 clusters, one per type of treatment conducted, the investigators will perform 6 focus group interviews with patients (3 in the French, and 3 in the Dutch language) and 6 focus group interviews with family members (3 in the French, and 3 in the Dutch language).

Investigators will collect sex, main diagnosis (of patients), age and nationality of all participants at the beginning of each focus group interview. They will transcribe all interviews verbatim and analyze them in Nvivo software as provided by the VUB. Participant characteristics will be analyzed by descriptive statistics.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for patients:

• Patients (18+) who were treated for cancer, receiving radiotherapy, and followed thereafter in the UZ Brussel
• Dutch and French speaking
• Start date of treatment max 6 months before inclusion
• Estimated sample size: 5-8 x 6 patients

Inclusion criteria for family members:

• All family members (+18) of patients who were treated for cancer, receiving radiotherapy, and followed thereafter in the UZ Brussel
• Dutch and French speaking
• Start date of treatment of patient max 6 months before inclusion
• Estimated sample size: 5-8 x 6 family members

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Patient focus group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients who received radiation treatment

Treatment:

Other: Focus group interview

Family focus group

Experimental group

Description:

Family of patients who received radiation treatment

Treatment:

Other: Focus group interview