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NCT Number: NCT01867489

A Qualitative Study Into How Patients Deal With Chemotherapy-related Side Effects at Home

This qualitative study explores how patients deal with the side effects from chemotherapy at their home, what factors and ideas influence their symptom self-management and how professional caregivers contribute to the management of their symptoms at home. Data are collected through semi-structured interviews with adult patients treated with chemotherapy and analysed using a Grounded Theory approach.

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Key information

Conditions

Exploration of How Patients Deal With Side Effects From Chemotherapy

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

UZ Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult (≥18 years) patients with (any type and any stage of) cancer who were undergoing chemotherapy treatment in an ambulatory setting or during short hospital stays
  • Dutch speaking
  • Able to provide informed consent and to participate in an interview

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients who were in the first 2 cycles of treatment
  • Patients for whom an interview was considered physically, mentally and/or emotionally too burdensome.
  • Patients who had reported not to experience any side effect from treatment at all

Treatment and study plan

No intervention

Other

Primary outcomes

  1. patient's experience

    Time frame: one interview during the course of treatment, i.e. one timepoint between 2 months after the start of chemotherapy and the end of the patient's treatment

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Qualitative Study Into How Patients With Cancer Deal With Chemotherapy-Related Side Effects at Home

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Jun 4, 2013
Registry last updated
Nov 18, 2014

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