Tailored Health Literacy Follow-up in Cancer

Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Tailored Health Literacy follow-up in cancer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05627180

341

Details and patient eligibility

About

Health literacy refers to personal and relational factors affecting a persons ability to aquire, understand and use health information and health services. In a need assessment study, it was found that there is a need to focus on health literacy factors in the follow-up of people with cancer in the health care services.

Thus, this project evaluate the effect of a health literacy intervention in cancer. The intervention provides patients with nurse-led tailored follow-up by phone/digital/personal meetings that addresses their individual HL needs, particularly those needs that impact their quality of life, symptom burden, self-management, and health economic costs. Our main goal is to improve the patients' health literacy, with secondary goals of improving their quality of life, symptom burden, and self-management, and reducing their health care costs.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with cancer
• Above 18 years old
• Receiving treatment at the main intervention hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Not diagnosed with cancer
• Not above 18 years old
• Not in treatment at the intervention hospital

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

The Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will receive a tailored intervention based on each individuals health literacy needs. A project nurse with broad experience in cancer care will be trained in Motivational Interviewing techniques to provide follow-up for the patients in the intervention group in a period of 9 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tailored Health Literacy follow-up in cancer

Usual care group

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care group will receive usual follow-up.