Caring for the Sexual Health and Wellbeing of Cancer Survivors and Their Intimate Partners: An Anonymous Survey

Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

An Anonymous Survey Investigating Care for the Sexual Health of Cancer Survivors and Their Intimate Partners, as Provided by the United Kingdom Hospital Cancer Team

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06074445
• Other study ID #: Ethics ID 39453
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 23, 2022
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: Bournemouth University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this survey study is to provide broad information as reported by cancer survivors and their intimate partners about both their sexual health and their experiences of care from the United Kingdom hospital cancer team, including their perspectives on factors that may hinder or help care. This information will be analysed and used to inform the questions asked in a separate, subsequent, qualitative study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 169
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Cancer survivors diagnosed with any type of cancer at age 18 years or over

2. A partner of someone diagnosed with any type of cancer at age 18 years or over

3. Cancer diagnosis must be no more than 10 years ago

4. Cancer survivors or their partners who experienced treatment and follow up care in the United Kingdom

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer below the age of 18 years

2. Partners of cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer below the age of 18 years

3. Cancer diagnosis was more than 10 years ago

4. Cancer survivors/partners of survivors where the cancer treatment and follow up was not in the United Kingdom

5. Previous completion of the survey

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention
No intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	Bournemouth University	Bournemouth	Dorset

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bournemouth University	Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Fortuneswell Cancer Trust, National Institute for Health Research, Applied Research Collaboration, Wessex

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of participants who had a sexual health discussion(s) with the hospital cancer team at any point during cancer care	Sexual health discussion:19 examples of the sort of topics that may have been discussed in relation to sexual health	Up to 10 years prior to completing survey (discussion(s) about sexual health could have occurred at any point during cancer care)
Secondary	Number of participants with specific levels of impact on their sex lives by cancer and its treatments	As above	From each individual participants' cancer diagnosis/cancer treatment until the date that they completed the survey
Secondary	Survey questionnaire to measure the nature and prevalence of care for sexual health that cancer survivors and their intimate partners self-report experiencing from the UK hospital cancer team.	An online survey questionnaire (no validated questionnaire available and therefore research created the questionnaire based on a literature reviews on sexual health in oncology	Participants can report care received from prior to their cancer treatment through to their follow-up care (last 10 years only)
Secondary	Survey questionnaire to measure the nature and prevalence of the perceived barriers to and facilitators for care for sexual health as received by cancer survivors and their intimate partners when provided by the UK hospital cancer team.	As above	Participants can report their perceptions from diagnosis through to their follow-up care (last 10 years only)
Secondary	Survey questionnaire to measure to what extent groups of cancer survivors and their intimate partners with differing characteristics receive differing care for their sexual health from the UK hospital cancer team.	Participants' responses from outcomes 1-4 will be used toinform this outcome	Participants diagnosed with cancer in the previous 10 years.