Communicating a Cancer Diagnosis-Current Methods and Their Effects
Completed
Conditions studied: Behavior, Cancer
In brief
This study will investigate how patients are informed of their cancer diagnosis or recurrence and will explore their experience in learning about the diagnosis. Specifically, it will: * Distinguish methods of telling the diagnosis and identify its relationship to the type of cancer. * Determine if the way a patient is informed of their diagnosis is associated with their level of satisfaction with the method of being informed. * Identify who informs the patient of their diagnosis.. * Determine patient satisfaction with their diagnostic consult. * Identify indicators of satisfaction with the diagnostic consultation. Patients 18 years of age or older who are enrolled in or being screened for enrollment in a phase I, II or III clinical trial in the National Cancer Institute's Medical Oncology, Metabolism, Surgery or Neuro-Oncology branch may be eligible for this study. Participants complete a 15-minute questionnaire that includes questions related to the how they were informed of their cancer diagnosis.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00674804
- Run by
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
- People needed
- 1100
- Starts
- 2008-04-24
- Expected to finish
- 2009-07-16
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-07-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients that have cognitive impairments, such as mental challenges/retardation due to a congenital or developmental anomaly.
- a. Subjects with cognitive impairments are ineligible to participate in the study due to comprehension inabilities.
- Patients who have developed dementia as a result of their disease or from an unspecified source are not eligible for participation due to both memory and overall cognitive deficits.
- Patients that have multiple concurrent cancers are excluded from participation in this study.
Where it is running
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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