Status:
COMPLETED
Education Intervention in Encouraging Health Providers to Talk With Cancer Patients About the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Lead Sponsor:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Educating health providers on talking with cancer patients about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may help encourage health providers to talk more often with cancer patients abo...
Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: Primary * Examine the efficacy of an education intervention designed to increase the frequency with which health providers ask cancer patients about their use of complimentary and altern...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Health provider meeting the following criteria:
- Has regular contact with cancer patients by initially talking with patients, taking their histories, and conveying pertinent information to their physician at a participating CCOP site
- Must be actively seeing patients at a participating University of Texas (UT) MD Anderson Cancer Center Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) site
- Must not be employed at more than one participating CCOP site
- Not a temporary employee
- Patient of a health provider at a participating CCOP site meeting the following criteria:
- Current diagnosis of cancer including amyloidosis
- Diagnosed at least 1 week ago
- Finished treatment within the past 6 months
- Able to speak or read English
- No prior participation in this study at an earlier assessment
- PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Not specified
- PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- Not specified
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 7 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
1356 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00608933
Start Date
June 1 2008
End Date
December 7 2020
Last Update
December 9 2020
Active Locations (2)
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1
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7295
2
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030-4009