Questionnaires in Assessing Attitudes About Legalization of Marijuana Use in Participants With Cancer

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malignant Neoplasm

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire Administration

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03360799

P30CA016672 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

NCI-2018-01026 (Registry Identifier)

2017-0568 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial studies attitudes about legalization of marijuana use in participants with cancer. Questionnaires may help doctors to learn about and compare the attitudes that patients in non-legalized and legalized states have towards the legalization of medical marijuana.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To compare the proportion of cancer patients' who have a positive attitude about legalizing marijuana for medical purposes between those in a legalized versus (vs.) a non-legalized state.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the association of cancer patients' belief in the usefulness of medical marijuana in their state of residency (Texas versus Arizona).

II. To examine the association of demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients and their perception of medical marijuana.

III. To examine the preference of patients for treatment of pain, anxiety and depression between medical marijuana vs. opioids, anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications.

IV. To examine the association of media to perception of use of medical marijuana.

V. To evaluate the association of cancer patients' attitude about legalizing marijuana for medical purposes vs. recreational purposes.

VI. To examine the association of patients who have used marijuana for certain medical conditions/symptoms and their belief of how it has affected that condition/symptom.

VII. To compare demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients who have used marijuana for medical purposes.

VIII. To compare demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients who have used marijuana for non-medical purposes. IX. To compare demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients who believe marijuana is useful for medical reasons.

OUTLINE:

Participants complete 5 questionnaires.

Enrollment: 103 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients (inpatient or outpatient) seen by the Palliative Care team at Banner MD Anderson or UT MD Anderson
• Patients able to speak and read English
• Patients enrolled in each site must be a resident of the state where that site is located (e.g. if a patient is enrolled at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center [MDACC], they should be resident of the state of Texas)
• Patients should have a cancer diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are not able to speak or read English
• Altered mental status as determined by the interviewer based on the ability to understand the nature of the study and consent process

Trial design

103 participants in 1 patient group

Observational (questionnaire)

Description:

Participants complete 5 questionnaires.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire Administration