Modernizing Instructions to Improve Treatment Participation of Subjects During Their First Radiotherapy (PEERs)

University of Florida

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Cancer

Treatments

Behavioral: Existing patient instructions

Behavioral: Modernized patient instructions

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06246409

IRB202401379 (Other Identifier)

UF-HN-005

Details and patient eligibility

About

Daily patient participation is critical to the successful, life-saving delivery of radiotherapy. There is very little in the literature describing the best way to prepare patients to give optimal participation. This study aims to look at an already-prepared conversion of patient instruction materials and measure whether the improvement in clarity and specificity produces the desired changes in patient decision-making and emotional comfort.

Enrollment

650 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 99 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients ≥ 18 years old planning their first external beam radiotherapy
Written informed consent obtained from the subject and the subject agrees to comply with all the study-related procedures.

Exclusion criteria

Have received external beam radiotherapy in the past
External beam radiotherapy is initiated as inpatient.
External beam radiotherapy consists of less than 3 fractions.
Planned radiotherapy that does not employ an external beam
Planned participation in a clinical study that prohibits participation in a second, concurrent treatment trial
Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated, or subjects who are compulsorily detained for treatment of either a psychiatric or physical illness.