Health and Employment After Gastro Intestinal Surgery - HEAGIS1

University of Padova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colonic Neoplasms; Stomach Neoplasm; Esophageal Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: Promotion of competences of participant involved in the management of the post operative period

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04466592

232050

Details and patient eligibility

About

By using the M.A.D.I.T. methodology and the Dialogics science, SALVO Project aims to develop operational guidelines to support oncological target patients in the resumption of their daily post-operative activities. The research will implement an instrument for the purpose of measuring the health need of participants who are admitted to the surgical ward. Therefore, targeted interventions will be implemented with participants, and efficacy will be evaluated in order to define treatment guidelines.

The principal aim of this study is to create a validated and replicable intervention model for supporting patients who undergone surgery for esophagus and gastro intestinal cancer.

Full description

Several studies highlight how patients diagnosed with a digestive tract cancer, experience difficulties in returning to work after treatment, leading to socio-economic spill-over effects.

A specific 16 questions questionnaire had been developed for this study, the "Health and Employment After Gastro Intestinal Surgery Dialogical Questionnaire" (HEADS-DQ). It investigate peculiar patient competences involved after surgery: future forethought; context evaluation; consequences of own actions forethought; use of available resources, each relevant to four areas: clinical; familiar; working; daily-activities.

Through this questionnaire patient ability in dealing with after surgery consequences will be evaluated in order to define targeted support, which will be offered by professional psychologists. These interventions efficacy will be evaluated through another administration of the HEADS-DQ.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >18 years old;
• Comprehension of Italian language;
• Esophageal or gastro intestinal cancer diagnosis;
• Curative surgery for neoplasm;
• No metastasis;

Exclusion criteria

• <18 years old
• Non comprehension of Italian language;
• No esophageal or gastro intestinal cancer diagnosis;
• Palliative ;
• Cancer recurrence or metastasis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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47 participants in 1 patient group

Supportive intervention

Experimental group

Description:

A research psychologist will support participants, promoting their competences in the recover of work and social activities, such as the compliance.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promotion of competences of participant involved in the management of the post operative period