Symptom Management in African-American Men With Localized Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

PROSTATE CANCER SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT FOR LOW LITERACY MEN

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00767845
• Other study ID #: CDR0000600455
• Secondary ID: BCM-H-19323
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 4, 2008
• Last updated: November 7, 2016
• Start date: June 2006
• Est. completion date: May 2008

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: Baylor College of Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Gathering information about symptom management from patients with localized prostate cancer may help doctors improve patients' quality of life.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying symptom management in African-American men with localized prostate cancer.

Description:

OBJECTIVES:

• Develop a symptom management intervention for African-American men treated for localized prostate cancer, with a particular emphasis on low health literacy men.

OUTLINE: Participants are interviewed by the principal investigator over the phone or meet the principal investigator at the Veterans Administration prostate cancer clinic. If the interview is conducted in the clinic, it is held in a private room in the clinic.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: May 2008
• Est. primary completion date: May 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 120 Years

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Biopsy-proven localized prostate cancer

• Has received treatment for prostate cancer

• Patient self-identifies as being of African-American descent

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Able to speak and read in English

• Has an address in order to receive study materials by mail (a street address or post office box)

• Has either a telephone in order to be interviewed OR is able to meet the principal investigator at the Veterans Administration prostate clinic and be interviewed there

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Prostate Cancer
• Prostatic Neoplasms
• Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment

Intervention

Other:
• questionnaire/survey administration

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine	Houston	Texas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Baylor College of Medicine

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Symptom management taxonomy