Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Healthy Lifestyle and Health Behavior Change in Cancer Patients and Their Partners; A Pilot Study

Sponsor

University Medical Center Groningen (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT02602041

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Actual Duration (Months)

1.9

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The investigators will perform a pilot study to gain insight into attitudes, barriers and facilitators for health behavior change in cancer patients and their partners. Results of this pilot will be used to design suitable questionnaires to investigate health behavior change in a larger cohort of patients and their partners. It will also direct future interventions to adequately target patients and, potentially, their partners to improve their lifestyle following a cancer diagnosis.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Breast Cancer Testicular Cancer	Other: Literature search and semi-structured interview

Detailed Description

The investigators will perform semi-structured interviews with cancer patients and their partners in order to explore knowledge, attitudes, barriers and facilitators regarding health behavior change following cancer treatment.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Actual Enrollment :

38 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Healthy Lifestyle and Health Behavior Change in Cancer Patients and Their Partners

Actual Study Start Date :

Nov 1, 2015

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Jul 1, 2017

Actual Study Completion Date :

Jul 1, 2017

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Patients with breast cancer and partners We will invite 10 women with early stage breast cancer (BC) and their partners for a semi-structured interview.	Other: Literature search and semi-structured interview We will do a literature search and perform semi-structured interviews with cancer patients and their partners in order to explore knowledge, attitudes, barriers and facilitators regarding health behavior change following cancer treatment.
Patients with testicular cancer and partners We will invite 10 men with disseminated testicular cancer (TC) and their partners for a semi-structured interview.	Other: Literature search and semi-structured interview We will do a literature search and perform semi-structured interviews with cancer patients and their partners in order to explore knowledge, attitudes, barriers and facilitators regarding health behavior change following cancer treatment.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Patients with breast cancer and partners

We will invite 10 women with early stage breast cancer (BC) and their partners for a semi-structured interview.

Other: Literature search and semi-structured interview

We will do a literature search and perform semi-structured interviews with cancer patients and their partners in order to explore knowledge, attitudes, barriers and facilitators regarding health behavior change following cancer treatment.

Patients with testicular cancer and partners

We will invite 10 men with disseminated testicular cancer (TC) and their partners for a semi-structured interview.

Other: Literature search and semi-structured interview

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Gain insight into barriers and facilitators for health behavior change [12 months]
Qualitative description of barriers and facilitators for health behavior change

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

between 18 and 65 years of age
have completed adjuvant or curative chemotherapy (in BC and TC patients, respectively) or started adjuvant hormonal therapy alone (in BC patients) between 6 and 24 months previously
have no signs or symptoms of recurrent disease
be in follow-up at the Department of Medical Oncology of the UMCG.

Exclusion Criteria:

signs or symptoms of recurrent disease
mental disability

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University Medical Center Groningen	Groningen		Netherlands	9713 GZ

Sponsors and Collaborators

University Medical Center Groningen

Investigators

Principal Investigator: J. Nuver, MD, PHD, University Medical Center Groningen

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

J. Nuver, Principal investigator, University Medical Center Groningen

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT02602041

Other Study ID Numbers:

201501074

First Posted:

Nov 11, 2015

Last Update Posted:

Nov 14, 2017

Last Verified:

Nov 1, 2017

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Testicular Neoplasms

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Nov 14, 2017