Pretreatment Group Consultation for Patients With Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal Neoplasm Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pretreatment Group Consultation for Patients With Colorectal Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03888313
• Other study ID #: INFOM
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 26, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 13, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: January 2021
• Source: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

An explorative study of the patients' experience of participating at a group consultation, together with other patients with newly diagnosed colon or rectal cancer

Description:

The group consultation is planned to be on the Friday of the same week as the patient recieved a suggested treatment plan i.e. after MDT, at a personal consultation with his/her colorectal surgeon. During the group consultation the steps necessary for the patient to take responsability for in connection with the operation. Ample time for questions, clarifications and discussions. Appropriate clinical trials are presented

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 161
• Est. completion date: January 13, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: November 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 120 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients participating in the pretreatment group consultation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not able to answer questionnaire

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colorectal Neoplasm
• Colorectal Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• Pretreatment group consultation
A consultation in group with several patients and one surgeon

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra	Gothenburg	Västra Götaland Region

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

References & Publications (1)

Walming S, Angenete E, Bock D, Block M, de la Croix H, Wedin A, Haglind E. Preoperative Group Consultation Prior to Surgery for Colorectal Cancer-an Explorative Study of a New Patient Education Method. J Cancer Educ. 2021 Jan 14. doi: 10.1007/s13187-020-0 — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The patient's experience of participating in a pretreatment group consultation	A questionnaire with questions on the patient's experience of the information received and their experience of participating in the pretreatment group consultation will be used to collect descriptive data. Some of the questions have been developed through semi-structured interviews with patients with colon or rectal cancer other are standardized questionnaires used in other studies.; The questionnaire includes questions on which information resources the patients have used (such as social media, patient organizations).Their experience of the pretreatment group consultation will be assessed by "Would you recommend someone in the same situation as you to attend the pretreatment group consultation?". Possible answering options are "Yes", "No" and "Don't know". The EuroQol's EQ-5D-5L for assessment of health related quality of will be included mainly as a tool for assurance of external validity, and not as an outcome measure. Both the indices and the VAS-scale may be used.	Before start of treatment