Facilitate the Return to Work of Cancer Survivors

NCT ID: NCT03666936

Last Updated: 2025-06-13

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

34 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-05-01

Study Completion Date

2021-01-31

Brief Summary

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Cancer patients could experience physical limitations, cognitive symptoms, fatigue and pain, that could be perceived at diagnosis but may also occur during treatment, limiting the person from carrying out their activities of daily living, including work tasks. Return to work is a major goal, as it facilitates the patient's ability to deal with the disease and improve general health.

At present, there is no path aimed at supporting cancer patients in the return to work process. Because of this, the investigators want to assess the feasibility of a multidisciplinary social-health care pathway aimed at manage the difficulties that cancer patients might perceive in the return to work process.

Detailed Description

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To receive the support from the social-health care pathway, cancer survivors should go to an information desk service (called Informa Salute) located in the hospital. Here, sociodemographic and work-related data will be collected with the aim to organize the tailored social-health support to facilitate the return to work.

The social-health care pathway created includes: the local Health Authority of Reggio Emilia and the local Order of Physicians, voluntary non-profit associations, vocational and educational training bodies, social cooperatives, one labor union and one chartered accountant enterprise.

Conditions

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Neoplasms Return to Work

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention

Social-health care intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Social-health care intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

Cancer survivors enrolled in the study could receive support from the Occupational Therapist and/or from the social care professionist to overcome the difficulties encounter at work or to facilitate work reintegration.

Interventions

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Social-health care intervention

Cancer survivors enrolled in the study could receive support from the Occupational Therapist and/or from the social care professionist to overcome the difficulties encounter at work or to facilitate work reintegration.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* adults with cancer diagnosis and employed at the time of diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria

\-
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Azienda USL Reggio Emilia - IRCCS

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Elisa Mazzini

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Local Helath Authority of Reggio Emilia-IRCCS

Locations

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Local Health Authority of Reggio Emilia-IRCCS

Reggio Emilia, , Italy

Site Status

Countries

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Italy

References

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Paltrinieri S, Fugazzaro S, Bertozzi L, Bassi MC, Pellegrini M, Vicentini M, Mazzini E, Costi S. Return to work in European Cancer survivors: a systematic review. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Sep;26(9):2983-2994. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4270-6. Epub 2018 May 29.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29845421 (View on PubMed)

Paltrinieri S, Vicentini M, Mazzini E, Ricchi E, Fugazzaro S, Mancuso P, Giorgi Rossi P, Costi S. Factors influencing return to work of cancer survivors: a population-based study in Italy. Support Care Cancer. 2020 Feb;28(2):701-712. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-04868-0. Epub 2019 May 25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31129762 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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OCCA_Welcom_2017

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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