Tailored Health Literacy Follow-up in Cancer
ConditionCancer
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorLovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
About this trial
Health literacy refers to personal and relational factors affecting a persons ability to aquire, understand and use health information and health services. In a need assessment study, it was found that there is a need to focus on health literacy factors in the follow-up of people with cancer in the health care services.
Thus, this project evaluate the effect of a health literacy intervention in cancer. The intervention provides patients with nurse-led tailored follow-up by phone/digital/personal meetings that addresses their individual HL needs, particularly those needs that impact their quality of life, symptom burden, self-management, and health economic costs. Our main goal is to improve the patients' health literacy, with secondary goals of improving their quality of life, symptom burden, and self-management, and reducing their health care costs.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Diagnosed with cancer
Above 18 years old
Receiving treatment at the main intervention hospital
Disqualifiers
Not diagnosed with cancer
Not above 18 years old
Not in treatment at the intervention hospital
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Tailored Health Literacy follow-up in cancer
Behavioral1. Participants are invited to a consultation with the project nurse where the project nurse will use baseline data to identify the patient's HL needs, QOL, symptom burden and issues related to self-management of their cancer and treatment. These data will be used together with an interview questionnaire specifically developed to communicate HL needs (i.e. CHAT), which form the basis for the individualized HL support. 2. Actions: Based on results of the consultation, the project nurse and the patient will use a worksheet of possible actions to identify those most relevant to the patient's individual needs. Based on this, different self-management tasks and actions will be offered, and an individual tailored follow-up plan will be made. The patient and the project nurse will use a workbook containing information on the follow-up plan that will be added into medical record. 3. Telephone/digital conversations with the project every second month for a period of 9 months.
Treatment groups
150 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: The Intervention GroupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Usual care groupNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
General Health literacy measured with the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)
Change of Health Literacy questionnaire
Time frame
6 months, 9 monthsSecondary outcomes
1
Electronic Health Literacy measured with the electronic Health Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ)
Change of electronic Health Literacy questionnaire
Time frame
6 months, 9 months2
General symptoms measured with the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS)
Change of symptom burden questionnaire
Time frame
6 months, 9 months3
Oral symptoms measured with four items selected from the European Organization for REsearch and Treatment of Cancer-oral health 15 (EORTC-OH 15)
Change in oral symptoms
Time frame
6 months, 9 months4
Self-management measured with the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HeiQ)
Change of self-management questionnaire
Time frame
6 months, 9 monthsSponsors and contacts
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Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
Lead sponsor
University of Oslo
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov