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Improving psychosocial outcomes for cancer carers: A pilot study

ABSTRACT: Interventions: A structured telephone intervention delivered by a cancer nurse. The primary carers of people diagnosed with poor prognosis gastrointestinal cancer (colorectal Duke’s stage D, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, gall bladder, bile duct or small bowel) will be asked to complete a baseline questionnaire. Carers will then be randomised into the intervention or control group. Carers in the intervention group will receive five telephone calls from the cancer nurse in the 10 weeks following the patient that they are carer for is discharged from hospital (the first call is at Day 3 post-discharge and then the remaining four will be fortnightly ie Day 17, 31, 45 and 59). Calls will vary in duration and be dependent on each individual carer’s need. It is anticipated that calls will last about 20 minutes. Primary outcome(s): Feasibility. Feasibility of the intervention will be determined by assessing the number of calls required to achieve a successful intervention call. Mean, standard devaitions, median and range of time taken for calls at each time point will also be calculated.[Days 3, 17, 31, 45 and 59 after the patient’s hospital discharge.];Acceptability. Acceptability will be assessed by ascertaining the proportion of carers who complete each call at each time point. Demographic and clinical characteristics of carers allocated to the intevrention group who did or did not accpet or complete each call will be compared to assess the acceptability. Furthermore, qualitative semi-structured interviews will be conducted at 3 months following the patient’s hopital discharge and when the intervention is complete in order to gather detailed feedback of participant’s views of the intervention.[Days 3, 17, 31, 45 and 59 after the patient’s hospital discharge.] Study Design: Purpose: Educational / counselling / training; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Blinded (masking used);Assignment: Parallel;Type of endpoint: Efficacy

DISEASE(S): Public Health-health Service Research,Gastrointestinal Cancer,Cancer-bowel-back Passage (rectum) Or Large Bowel (colon)

PROVIDER: 2454783 | ecrin-mdr-crc |

REPOSITORIES: ECRIN MDR

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