Improvement of Information to Cancer Patients' Caregivers

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: Identification and provision of lacking information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02380469

R82-A5445

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a systematic early assessment of uncovered needs for information, supplemented by an interview about the needs with the patient's nurse who seeks to provide the information requested, will improve the caregivers' and the patients' satisfaction with information and communication and potentially also decrease anxiety and depression.

Enrollment: 211 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

• Cancer patient
• Newly refered to (i.e., this is the patient's first visit in) Department of Oncology, Herlev Hospital, in order to start medical treatment (e.g. chemotherapy)
• Written informed consent

Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:

• Attends the first visit in the Department of Oncology with the patient
• Has lacked information about at least one of the 13 aspects of information asked about in the questionnaire
• Written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient and/or caregiver do not understand Danish well enough to participate in the study
• The patient has an expected survival of less than six months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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211 participants in 2 patient groups

Immediate intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Immediately after enrollment in the project, caregivers and patients receive the intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Identification and provision of lacking information

Delayed intervention (3 weeks later)

Other group

Description:

This group receives the same intervention as in the experimental group, but after the outcome assessment at 2 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Identification and provision of lacking information