Community-Led Action Research in Oncology: Improving Symptom Management

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Conditions studied: Chemotherapy-induced Neutropenia, Chemotherapy-induced Nausea and Vomiting, Anxiety, Depression, Fatigue, Neoplasms

In brief

This study will be conducted at La Liga Contra el Cancer in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The overall objective of this project is to improve symptom management for patients undergoing chemotherapy in Honduras. The first step in this line of research is a "proof of concept" feasibility study in which the investigators will demonstrate their ability to train nurses to administer a non-pharmacological, telephone-delivered, symptom management program for chemotherapy patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03208816

Run by

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

People needed

25

Starts

2017-07-24

Expected to finish

2017-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-03-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are over the age of 18 and are beginning a chemotherapy regimen to treat any solid or hematological cancer will be eligible for the study.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who do not start planned chemotherapy.

Where it is running

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
• La Liga Contra el Cancer — San Pedro Sula, Honduras

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