Multimedia Educational Program for Patients With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer or Breast Cancer

NCT ID: NCT00830635

Last Updated: 2015-06-16

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1800 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-09-30

Study Completion Date

2013-12-31

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: A multimedia educational program may help patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer and breast cancer reduce distress, make informed treatment decisions, and improve quality of life.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well a multimedia educational program works in patients with early-stage prostate cancer or breast cancer.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Determine whether an innovative multimedia educational program will help newly diagnosed prostate (project 1) and breast (project 2) cancer patients prepare for their journey as cancer patients, promote informed treatment decision-making and reduce cancer-specific distress, and among breast cancer patients at re-entry, facilitate an informed re-entry transition to cancer survivorship and reduce cancer-specific distress (project 3).
* Determine whether having Cancer Information Service (CIS) Information Specialists make a scheduled telephone callback to callers in project 3 will augment and support use of the CIS Research Consortium (CISRC) multimedia educational programs and further enhance the study outcomes examined in this program of research.
* Determine whether the hypothesized mediational variables account for significant intervention effects in each of the three component projects.
* Examine potential moderator variables to assess potential differences in intervention efficacy by selected subgroups (e.g., age, education) within each component project.
* Conduct an in-depth tracking study of utilization patterns for a detailed description of different patterns of use, as well as elucidating those components or modules within the program that had differential utilization by participants.
* Assist the CIS and other similar cancer information systems in disseminating one or more of the CISRC interventions should they prove effective in this program of research.

Secondary

* Conduct secondary analyses across projects (i.e., perceived need for and benefit from the CISRC interventions and intervention efficacy across three high priority cancer patient populations) that will be made possible by the use of a common theoretical framework, the same or similar intervention and research design across projects, and a common set of endpoints.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients are assessed by demographic questions and a baseline interview conducted by Cancer Information Service (CIS) Information Specialists.

Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 intervention groups:

* Group 1: Patients receive a mailing containing standard CIS print materials. In project 1, patients receive " Treatment Choices for Men with Early-Stage Prostate Cancer" and "What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer". In project 2, patients receive "What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer" and "Surgery Choices for Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer". In project 3, patients receive "Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment" and "What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer".
* Group 2: Patients receive mailings appropriate to their project as in group 1. Patients also receive the multimedia program via the Internet or CD-ROM.
* Group 3: In project 3 only, patients receive mailings appropriate to their project as in group 1 and the multimedia program as in group 2. Patients also receive a CIS callback intervention at 10-14 days from trained Information Specialists from the CIS.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed at 2 and 9 months.

Conditions

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Breast Cancer Depression Long-term Effects of Cancer Treatment Prostate Cancer Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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educational intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

informational intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

internet-based intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

questionnaire administration

Intervention Type OTHER

study of socioeconomic and demographic variables

Intervention Type OTHER

survey administration

Intervention Type OTHER

psychosocial assessment and care

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

quality-of-life assessment

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Patients are diagnosed with 1 of the following:

* Diagnosis of prostate cancer (project 1)

* Early-stage disease
* Previously untreated disease or treatment status unknown
* Diagnosis of breast cancer (projects 2-3)

* Early-stage disease
* No ductal carcinoma in situ or lobular carcinoma in situ
* Inflammatory breast cancer allowed (project 2)
* Previously untreated disease, receiving concurrent treatment, previously treated disease, or treatment status unknown

* No more than 30 days since completion of treatment OR no more than 6 months post-treatment (project 3)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

* Has access to a computer
* Willing to provide mailing address and telephone number
* Must be active information-seekers who have already called the CIS
* Understands English

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

* See Disease Characteristics
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Colorado, Denver

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Alfred Marcus, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

AMC Cancer Research Center

Locations

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University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Miami

Miami, Florida, United States

Site Status

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Seattle, Washington, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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AMCCRC-08-0498

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

08-0498

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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