Telephone Counseling: Men With Prostate Cancer & Partners

University of Arizona

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Prostate Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Telephone delivered education only; Behavioral: Telephone Interpersonal Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00822510

04-0376-02

R21CA113409 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to test a telephone delivered educational support program versus an education only program for improving symptom management and quality of life in men with prostate cancer and their partners.

Full description

Eligibility Criteria for men: receiving treatment for prostate cancer,over 21 years of age, English speaking, have access to and ability to talk on the phone and have a partner willing to participate in the study. Participants can live anywhere in the United States because the intervention is telephone delivered.

Partners can be anyone the man selects (friend or relative) who is over 21 years of age, English speaking and has access to or ability to speak on the phone.

Men and their partners will be assigned to one of two groups. Each survivor will receive 8 telephone calls over an 8-week period for about 30 minutes each. Each partner will receive 4 telephone calls every other week for about 30 minutes each. We will ask everyone to complete a baseline assessment over the telephone, after the 8 weeks, and then again about 8 weeks after the second assessment.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Receiving treatment for prostate cancer
• Over 21 years
• Access to and ability to talk on the phone
• Speaks English and has a partner to participate with him.
• Partners are anyone who the man chooses (friend or relative) who is over 21 years, English speaking and has access and ability to talk on the phone.

Exclusion criteria

• under 21 years
• Does not speak English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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79 participants in 2 patient groups

Telephone Interpersonal Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Telephone delivered interpersonal counseling support intervention. Intervention was for 8 weeks. Participants were called on the telephone each week for about 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telephone Interpersonal Counseling

Telephone delivered education only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Telephone delivered education only. Educational topics included prostate cancer health, side effects, physical activity, diet. Participants were called on the telephone each week for about 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telephone delivered education only