About this trial
The purpose of this research study is to better understand how cancer-related fatigue affects patients and how it's discussed with providers. This information will be used to develop an educational resource (visual aid poster) that could help individuals and their providers talk about cancer-related fatigue and which may help individuals better manage this symptom.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Ability to comply with study procedures for the duration of the study
Written informed consent and HIPAA authorization for release of personal information
Ability to read/write, understand and converse in English without the need for an interpreter
Men and women aged ≥ 18 years at the time of consent
Disqualifiers
Continuing maintenance therapy or other cancer-related treatment (i.e. immunotherapy)
History of or current untreated Major Depressive Disorders or untreated severe depression
Hemoglobin <11g/dL at last CBC SOC lab collection
History/diagnosis of dementia
Trial population
Cancer survivors and clinicians at LCH and/or at the Charlotte or Winston-Salem campuses of AHWFBCCC.
Trial design
Cohort
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
CRF Visual Aid
BehavioralAfter all qualitative interviews and associated quantitative data analysis are complete, the visual aid will be created to illustrate, through a type of Venn Diagram, how the data are related.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Domains reflecting cancer-related fatigue (CRF) experiences in cancer survivors
A domain is a topic that people talk about that has sub-items characterizing the distinct features and levels of importance within the domain. Using qualitative analysis, evaluation of how survivors think and talk about CRF to generate domain classifications of language. Domain is a categorical variable.
Secondary outcomes
Qualitative themes derived from open-ended interviews of clinicians
Qualitative themes resulting from the inductive analysis of open-ended questions administered in clinician interviews. A qualitative theme is the outcome of coding, a label that reflects what a unit of data is about or what it means. Qualitative theme is categorical variable.
Domains reflecting CRF experiences in cancer survivors
Each domain is a binary variable to indicate whether the domain was used or not used.
Appropriateness of the visual aid to alleviate survivor-clinician communication barriers
Appropriateness is the degree to which the visual aid addresses patients' needs for communicating CRF and clinicians' needs for assessing CRF. Appropriateness is an ordinal variable.
Sponsors and contacts
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Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Lead sponsor
Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute
Collaborator