Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Needs and Service Uptake
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexFemale
Age21+
SponsorChangi General Hospital
About this trial
The investigators are attempting to verify the prevalence of cancer rehabilitation needs at our institution in breast cancer patients. The investigators also want to assess 1) self-perceived needs for cancer rehabilitation services, 2) awareness, willingness, and patient health beliefs as determinants for cancer rehabilitation-seeking behaviour, and 3) the modifiable patient factors driving the mismatch between needs and uptake in our population.
Patients attending outpatient clinics in our hospital will be approached to answer a questionnaire designed to find out this information. The investigators hope that the results will ultimately inform the design of better triage and referral systems that match patients to services based on their rehabilitation needs.
The investigators believe that local survivors of breast cancer have unmet rehabilitation needs and that it is possible to evaluate their readiness to seek access to rehabilitation services as well as identify mismatches between provided and desired services through the administration of a cancer rehabilitation questionnaire (CRQ).
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Female patients
Age 21yrs old and above
Histological diagnosis of breast cancer at any stage (or clinical consensus at a Tumour Board meeting, for example if the condition is metastatic and biopsy is not indicated for any reason)
Started treatment (surgical, medical, radiotherapeutic, or otherwise) with curative or palliative intent
Disqualifiers
Unable to answer the questionnaire for any reasons such as cognitive impairment or sensory dysfunction
Declined participation
Trial population
Consecutive purposive sample of all female patients with breast cancer in the Breast Surgery and Medical Oncology clinics.
Trial design
Design model
Cohort
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
376 Participants
are grouped into 1 trial groupGroup A: Eligible patients
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Symptom/impairment prevalence
The prevalence of reported symptoms and impairments among breast cancer survivors.
Time frame
At the point of recruitmentSecondary outcomes
1
Awareness of available support
Awareness of available support for symptomatic patients
Time frame
At the point of recruitment2
Willingness to receive support
Willingness to receive rehabilitation support for symptomatic patients
Time frame
At the point of recruitment3
Health beliefs in relation to receiving rehabilitation support
Factors associated with the uptake of such sessions (using the HBM factors as well as sociodemographic factors of age, treatment status, social support, and highest education level)
Time frame
At the point of recruitment4
Agreement on level of care
Agreement between patient and physician for the level of care they feel would be appropriate for their case (unsupervised exercise, supervised community-based rehabilitation, clinically-supervised rehabilitation, rehabilitation medicine consult, or exercise clearance/work-up). The professional judgement will be from a rehabilitation medicine physician with experience managing patients with cancer rehabilitation needs.
Time frame
At the point of recruitmentSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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