Optimized Psycho-oncological Care Through an Interdisciplinary Care Algorithm

NCT ID: NCT04638699

Last Updated: 2023-03-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 900 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-31

Brief Summary

Adequate, needs-oriented psycho-oncological care contributes to reducing the burden on cancer patients and their relatives and to improving the quality of life. There is still a need for clarification regarding the need and the determination of psychosocial needs. This multi-center study (3 centers: Hanover, Leipzig and Dresden) aims at a professionalization of psychosocial screening, in order to enable thus an exact and need-based allocation to psycho-oncological support. The optimization and professionalization of the psychosocial screening process shall be achieved by a training of oncological nursing and development of an interdisciplinary care algorithm. The aim is to examine whether "OptiScreen" increases the targeted and needs-based allocation to psycho-oncology.

Detailed Description

Adequate, needs-oriented psycho-oncological care contributes to reducing the burden on cancer patients and their families and to improving the quality of life of all those affected. In order to ensure patient-oriented psycho-oncological care, it is necessary to allocate psychologically burdened patients and patients in need of care to psycho-oncology by means of screening.

Within the framework of this multicenter study (Hannover, Leipzig and Dresden), a newly designed training of nursing staff ("OptiScreen training") on mental stress and psycho-oncological care is intended to increase the precise identification of mentally stressed patients in need of treatment, to increase the allocation of these patients to psycho-oncology and to improve interdisciplinary cooperation.

Aims of the study:

1. targeted, needs-based allocation to psycho-oncology

2. increasing the acceptance of psycho-oncological screening by patients* and treatment team

3. increase of patient competence and satisfaction

4. increasing the acceptance of psycho-oncological treatment by patients and treatment team In summary, the findings of this multi-center study should contribute to the improvement of interdisciplinary cooperation, improve the demand-oriented and targeted allocation of psychologically burdened patients to psycho-oncological care and thus develop a "best practice model" of an interdisciplinary care algorithm.

Methodology

The study will include inpatients from the visceral oncology centers at the three sites who have the necessary cognitive, physical and linguistic abilities. The study is divided into 2 phases:

Phase 1: Survey of the current status For this purpose, N = 300 patients* in the visceral oncology centers are interviewed with a questionnaire during the inpatient stay (t0) and three months later (t1).

The data collected will include psychological stress, disease management/treatment, quality of life and treatment satisfaction of persons with oncological diseases. In addition, the needs for information and support, the practicability as well as the allocation to psycho-oncological care and its utilization will be surveyed.

Execution of the "OptiScreen training": special psycho-oncological training of the nursing staff for basic knowledge about the experience of psychological stress as well as diagnostics of psychosocial stress will take place after the completion of phase 1.

Phase 2: survey after the OptiScreen training Analogous to phase 1, N = 600 patients* in the visceral oncology centers are interviewed during the inpatient stay (t0) and three months later (t1).

Conditions

Psycho-Oncology; Visceral Cancer; Screening; Psychosocial Stressor

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: SCREENING
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Phase 1 Survey of the actual state

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Phase 2 Survey after the OptiScreen training

Group Type: OTHER

OptiScreen training

Intervention Type: OTHER

Special psycho-oncological training for nursing staff to acquire basic knowledge about the experience of mental stress as well as diagnostics of psychosocial stress

Interventions

OptiScreen training

Special psycho-oncological training for nursing staff to acquire basic knowledge about the experience of mental stress as well as diagnostics of psychosocial stress

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• In-patients of the visceral oncology centers at the three locations

Exclusion Criteria

• severe physical, cognitive and/or language limitations

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Universitätsklinikum Leipzig

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

UniversitätsKrebsCentrum Dresden

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Hannover Medical School

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Zimmermann, Tanja Prof. Dr.

Prof. Dr. Tanja Zimmermann

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Tanja Zimmermann

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hannover Medical School

Locations

Hannover Medical School

Hanover, , Germany

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Germany

Central Contacts

Tanja Zimmermann, Prof.

Role: CONTACT

zimmermann.tanja@mh-hannover.de

+49511532 ext. 3133

Tanja Zimmermann

Role: CONTACT

zimmermann.tanja@mh-hannover.de

05115323133

Facility Contacts

Tanja Zimmermann

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

70113550

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id