Changes in Patient Reported Constipation Among Advanced Cancer Patients After Receiving an Educational Intervention

March 20, 2018 updated by: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
The goal of this research study is to learn how patients' think about constipation before and after receiving education about the subject.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

If participant agrees to take part in the study, information about them (such as their age, gender, ethnicity, religion, diagnosis, and drugs they are currently taking) will be collected from their medical record.

Participant will also complete 1 questionnaire about constipation. It should take about 1-3 minutes to complete the questionnaire.

After completing the questionnaire, participant will be randomly assigned (as in the flip of a coin) to 1 of 2 study groups. This is done because no one knows if one study group is better, the same, or worse than the other group. Participant will have an equal chance of being in either group.

  • If participant is assigned to Group 1, they will watch a short educational video.
  • If participant is assigned to Group 2, they will read a fact sheet.

Both the video and the fact sheet describe symptoms of constipation and the importance of regular bowel movements. They should take about 3 minutes each to complete.

After participant has viewed the educational material, they will complete 3 questionnaires about constipation and how helpful they think the video or fact sheet was in educating them about constipation. It should take about 10 minutes total to complete these questionnaires. Participant will watch the video/read the fact sheet and complete the questionnaires in their room at the Supportive Care Clinic.

Length of Study:

Patient's participation on this study will be over after they have completed the last 3 questionnaires.

This is an investigational study.

Up to 200 participants will be enrolled in the study. All will take part at MD Anderson.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

59

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Texas
      • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
        • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with diagnosis of advanced cancer, including recurrent, locally advanced, or metastatic cancer
  2. Age >/= 18 years old
  3. Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak English
  4. Patients must have no clinical evidence of cognitive impairment as determined by the palliative care physician (Memorial Delirium Assessment Score >/= 7)
  5. Patients must sign an informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, i.e. Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
  2. Patients with complete or partial bowel obstruction as determined by the palliative care physician
  3. Patients with a bowel ostomy

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Educational Video
Participants complete self-administered numerical rating scale (NRS) constipation questionnaire at baseline. Participants watch a 3-minute educational video describing symptoms of constipation and importance of regular bowel movements. Participants then complete three self-administered questionnaires, post-educational material, Modified Rome III questionnaire, and Overall satisfaction of the educational material.
Behavioral: Questionnaires
Participants complete questionnaires at baseline and after intervention.
Other Names:
  • Surveys
Behavioral: Video
Participants watch a 3-minute educational video describing symptoms of constipation and importance of regular bowel movements.
Experimental: Fact Sheet
Participants complete self-administered numerical rating scale (NRS) constipation questionnaire at baseline. Participants read educational material describing symptoms of constipation and importance of regular bowel movements. Participants then complete three self-administered questionnaires, post-educational material, Modified Rome III questionnaire, and Overall satisfaction of the educational material.
Behavioral: Questionnaires
Participants complete questionnaires at baseline and after intervention.
Other Names:
  • Surveys
Behavioral: Fact Sheet
Participants read educational material describing symptoms of constipation and importance of regular bowel movements.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Patient-Reported Perception of Constipation
Time Frame: 1 day
Primary objective is to examine effect of educational intervention on the patient-reported perception of constipation (PRC, by a 0-10 numeric rating score) among advanced cancer patients.
1 day

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 30, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 7, 2018

Study Completion (Actual)

March 7, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 16, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 16, 2015

First Posted (Estimate)

April 21, 2015

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 22, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 20, 2018

Last Verified

March 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2015-0111
  • NCI-2015-00734 (Registry Identifier: NCI CTRP)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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