Expectations Regarding Mobility and Self-Care

If you agree to take part in this study, you will complete questionnaires before your inpatient rehabilitation and after you complete inpatient rehabilitation. The questionnaires will ask about how well you currently perform daily living activities, your expectation of how well you will perform daily living activities after you complete inpatient rehabilitation, your symptoms in the past 24 hours, and your physical, functional, social, and emotional well-being. These questionnaires should take about 15 minutes total to complete.

Information from your medical record (such as your age, gender, religion, cancer diagnosis, stage of cancer, and so on) will be collected.

Length of Study:

You participation on this study will be over after you complete the questionnaires.

This is an investigational study.

Up to 111 participants will take part in this study. All will be enrolled at MD Anderson.

Inclusion criteria

• Participants are willing and able to give written informed consent and to comply with all of the study visits and surveys
• Patients with any type of cancer admitted on the acute inpatient rehabilitation unit who can tolerate 3 hours of rehabilitation therapies per day
• Patients 18 years and older
• Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak English.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have delirium, severe symptom distress, or cognitive impairment.
• Patients who return to primary service prior to discharge from the acute inpatient rehabilitation unit.