Expectations Regarding Mobility and Self-Care

May 9, 2024 updated by: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Assessment of Expectations Regarding Mobility and Self-Care Between Physiatrists and Oncology Patients

The goal of this research study is to learn if there is a difference between your expectations of how well you will perform daily living activities after short-term inpatient rehabilitation and the doctor's expectations of how well you will perform daily living activities.

Study Overview

Detailed Description

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.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

133

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

    • 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

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants scheduled to receive inpatient rehabilitation therapy at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

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

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
Assessment Questionnaires
Questionnaires completed before and after inpatient rehabilitation. Questionnaires ask about daily living activity performance, expectation of how well daily living activities will be performed after completion of inpatient rehabilitation, symptoms experienced in the past 24 hours, and physical, functional, social, and emotional well-being.
Questionnaires completed before and after inpatient rehabilitation. Questionnaires ask about daily living activity performance, expectation of how well daily living activities will be performed after completion of inpatient rehabilitation, symptoms experienced in the past 24 hours, and physical, functional, social, and emotional well-being. These questionnaires should take about 15 minutes total to complete.
Other Names:
  • Surveys

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Assessment of Participant and Physiatry Practitioner Expectations of Mobility and Activities of Daily Living After Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Using Barthel Index
Time Frame: 3 days
3 days
Assessment of Participant and Physiatry Practitioner Expectations of Mobility and Activities of Daily Living After Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Using Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status Scales
Time Frame: 3 days
3 days

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Ekta Gupta, MD, 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.

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)

November 10, 2016

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 16, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 20, 2016

First Posted (Estimated)

September 22, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 13, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 9, 2024

Last Verified

May 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2016-0550
  • NCI-2018-01760 (Other Identifier: NCI-CTRP-Clinical Trial Reporting Registry)

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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