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Study Protocol: Evaluation of a DVD intervention designed to meet the informaton needs of patients with head and neck cancer and their partner, carer and families

BACKGROUND: Patients who undergo surgery for cancer of the head and neck and their families face complex and difficult challenges and are at risk of anxiety and depression and inability to cope with symptom and treatment burden. Information available to support them is not flexible enough to adjust...

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Autores principales: Parker, Vicki, Bennett, Leearna, Bellamy, Douglas, Britton, Benjamin, Lambert, Sylvia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5118897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27876035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1875-7
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author Parker, Vicki
Bennett, Leearna
Bellamy, Douglas
Britton, Benjamin
Lambert, Sylvia
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description BACKGROUND: Patients who undergo surgery for cancer of the head and neck and their families face complex and difficult challenges and are at risk of anxiety and depression and inability to cope with symptom and treatment burden. Information available to support them is not flexible enough to adjust to individual need. DESIGN/METHODS: A randomised clinical trial pre and post intervention design, comparing the use of a tailored DVD intervention, provided preoperatively and used throughout the post- operative period, with usual treatment. One hundred fifty-six individuals or partner couples will be randomly recruited into either the intervention or control group. A survey will be administered at three time points, preoperatively, post operatively and 3 months post-surgery. Anxiety and empowerment are the primary outcome measures. Qualitative data about use of the resource will be gathered by phone interview. DISCUSSION: This is the first study to rigorously evaluate the impact of a DVD intervention for this group of patients and their family members. The study will help to understand the impact of information usage on patient and family well- being and test a means by which to evaluate information and education resources for this and other cancer patient groups. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ACTRN12614001104640. Date registered: 17/10/2014.
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spelling pubmed-51188972016-11-28 Study Protocol: Evaluation of a DVD intervention designed to meet the informaton needs of patients with head and neck cancer and their partner, carer and families Parker, Vicki Bennett, Leearna Bellamy, Douglas Britton, Benjamin Lambert, Sylvia BMC Health Serv Res Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Patients who undergo surgery for cancer of the head and neck and their families face complex and difficult challenges and are at risk of anxiety and depression and inability to cope with symptom and treatment burden. Information available to support them is not flexible enough to adjust to individual need. DESIGN/METHODS: A randomised clinical trial pre and post intervention design, comparing the use of a tailored DVD intervention, provided preoperatively and used throughout the post- operative period, with usual treatment. One hundred fifty-six individuals or partner couples will be randomly recruited into either the intervention or control group. A survey will be administered at three time points, preoperatively, post operatively and 3 months post-surgery. Anxiety and empowerment are the primary outcome measures. Qualitative data about use of the resource will be gathered by phone interview. DISCUSSION: This is the first study to rigorously evaluate the impact of a DVD intervention for this group of patients and their family members. The study will help to understand the impact of information usage on patient and family well- being and test a means by which to evaluate information and education resources for this and other cancer patient groups. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ACTRN12614001104640. Date registered: 17/10/2014. BioMed Central 2016-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5118897/ /pubmed/27876035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1875-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Bellamy, Douglas
Britton, Benjamin
Lambert, Sylvia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5118897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27876035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1875-7
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