Tailoring Patient Education to Perceived Risk for Falls in Hospitalized Oncology Patients

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Conditions studied: Malignant Neoplasm

In brief

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies tailored patient educational intervention or standard education in assessing perceived risk for falls in hospitalized oncology patients. A tailored patient educational intervention may be more beneficial than standard education in preventing patients from falling by increasing the patient's knowledge of the risk factors for falling routinely and then providing education in deficit areas. Making patients more aware of the risk factors for falling may lead to greater engagement in preventative activities.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02081794

Run by

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

91

Starts

2014-02-01

Expected to finish

2015-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-10-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of cancer
• Admitted to the third floor of Seidman Cancer Center (SCC)
• Cognitively intact (alert, oriented to self, place, and time, and able to participate in the intervention)
• Ability to speak, read, and comprehend English

You may not qualify if…

• Nonmalignant diagnosis
• Actively dying
• Patients with a physician order for bed rest

Where it is running

• Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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