Educational Brochure in Preparing Patients With Gastric Cancer and Their Caregivers for Recovery After Surgery

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Conditions studied: Anxiety, Gastric Carcinoma, Stress

In brief

This pilot clinical trial studies an educational brochure in preparing patients with gastric cancer and their caregivers for recovery after surgery. Giving an educational brochure may help prepare patients and their caregivers by improving knowledge about symptoms after surgery. It may also improve quality of life and reduce worry after surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02334332

Run by

City of Hope Medical Center

People needed

0

Starts

2015-01-01

Expected to finish

2015-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-25

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients will be accrued using the following inclusion criteria:
• Scheduled to undergo partial or total gastrectomy for treatment of gastric cancer
• Able to read and understand English
• Informal Caregivers will be accrued using the following inclusion criteria:
• The primary informal caregiver as identified by patients participating in the study; this refers to either a family member or friend who will be providing the majority of care following surgery
• Able to read and understand English
• All participants must have the ability to understand the willingness to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study

Where it is running

• City of Hope Medical Center — Duarte, California, United States

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