Sexual Health Integration in Treatment of Gynecological Oncology (SHIFT-GO)

Medical University of Silesia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Health Quality of Life; Endometrial Cancer; Sexual Counselling; Vaginal Cancers; Cervical Cancers; Ovarian Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06958068

KB/96/FI/2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this cross-section observational and questionary based study is to learn how geological cancer survivors perceive sexual health support given by health care professionals during diagnosis and treatment process.

The main question to be answered is:

Who, when and to what extend should discuss the sexual health issues

The participants will answer online survey questions about Sexual health issues and Sexual counselling during diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

Full description

The main aim of the study is to verify who, from medical specialist, should discuss the sexual health issues in gynecological cancer survivors, when that discussion should take places and to what exited all sexual issues should be discusses.

The secondary end points are:

• to establish factors affecting returning to sexual activities defined as any type of physical contact with a partner engaging sexual organs as well as mutual and solo masturbation.
• to verified if gender of counselling specialist is important to patients.

The study is a cross-section observation one. It is based on a survey containing questions regarding basic socioeconomical factors, treatment history, reproductive history, and those concerning the opinion who, when, to what extend and how should ask about sexual issues during therapy modalities planning, treatment and follow-up.

Women after completing a treatment irrespectively of its type (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, immune check point inhibitors) will be eligible for the study. Those who are no more sexually active and currently have no sexual partner will also be included.

After collecting the date three main analysis will be conducted to answer the study questions.

The results will be used as a basic for further work on recommendation on sexual health counselling in gynecological malignancies.

Enrollment: 324 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed with gynecological malignancies except breast cancer
• completion of treatment irrespectively of its type (surgery, CTH, RTH, immunotherapy)
• ECOG≤2

Exclusion criteria

• diagnosed with breast cancer
• currently being treated for gynecological or other malignancies
• ECOG >2
• not being able to have any type of sexual activity due to physical limitations or comorbidities

Trial design

324 participants in 1 patient group

Women diagnosed with gynecological cancer after treatment complition

Description:

Observational questionnaire-based study