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- Clinical Trial NCT04318756
The Italian Version of Cancer Worry Scale (CWS_Ita)
The Italian Version of the Cancer Worry Scale . A Pancreatic Context Adaptation and Reliability Analysis
An Italian language version of the Cancer Worry Scale is not available yet.
The aim of this study is to develop and validate the Italian version of Cancer Worry Scale through subjects at high risk of pancreatic cancer for familiarity/genetic predisposition, or suffering from premalignant cystic lesions.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The Fear of Cancer remains a significant problem for subjects enrolled surveillance programs. This emotional condition can influence the patients' wellbeing and their adherence to treatments. No results coming from the application of Cancer Worry Scale on high-risk of Pancreatic cancer individuals have been provided yet.
The fear is an emotional reaction that can be the result of interpretation and cognitions of perceived internal cues and/or external cues. To objectify this emotion, a cancer worry scale, has been developed to investigate the fear in female breast cancer survivors. The proposed scale assesses the psychological distress caused by fear of cancer.
The detection of high level of fear can prevent problematic behaviours, including anxious preoccupation, avoidance, and excessive checking, and moreover it can help patients to reduce difficulties in performing the individual's daily and social activities. The scale could use to evaluate the psychological burden produced by the enrolment in a surveillance program due to a certain predisposition to Pancreatic cancer. One step forward will be to manage those individuals with high-level of Fear of cancer, providing them a proper psychological support.
At the General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit of the Pancreas Institute, some experimental self-made psychological support programs that investigate different psychologic distress through validated instruments, like anxiety, depression, perceived stress and global assessment or quality of life have been built up. It must be noted that the scale is not available specifically for Pancreatic cancer (originally it was created for breast cancer) , and for the Italian language, thus it has never been applied in an italian surveillance/follow-up program dealing with Pancreatic cancer. Nowadays, there is only a well-structured paper assessing psychological factors associated with cancer worries in high risk participants in a pancreatic cancer surveillance program. Differently than what has been already reported by Konings et al, the cohorts of patients that will be considered are heterogeneous, reflecting more accurately the real-life scenario of the subjects to whom the scale is administered to. In addition, this may help to identify those individuals that may benefit from a psychological support, in order to prevent a withdrawal from the surveillance program.
However, a cut-off has not been provided yet. With next step study we'll aim at determining a cut-off for the detection clinically relevant worry for cancer.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Salvotore Paiella, MD
- Phone Number: +39 0458126669
- Email: salvatore.paiella@univr.it
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Sampling Method
Study Population
Subject will be recruited from the current outpatients' clinic activity of the General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Pancreas Institute, Verona University Hospital. Subjects must be able to read and write in Italian. After obtained informed consent we will ask them to participate to preliminary pilot phase.
The interview of the pilot group will be audio recorded to allow to investigate and track detail that will highlight the comprehension of scale and participants' suggestion.
Patients affected by cynic neoplasm (group A) and high risk subjects for familiarity/genetic predisposition (group B) are currently enrolled at General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit of the Pancreas Institute of the University of Verona.
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
Subject will be recruited from the current outpatients' clinic activity of the General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Pancreas Institute, Verona University Hospital. Subjects must be able to read and write in Italian. After obtained informed consent we will ask them to participate to preliminary pilot phase.
The interview of the pilot group will be audio recorded to allow to investigate and track detail that will highlight the comprehension of scale and participants' suggestion.
Patients affected by cynic neoplasm (group A) and high risk subjects for familiarity/genetic predisposition (group B) are currently enrolled at General and Pancreatic Surgery Unit of the Pancreas Institute of the University of Verona.
Group A Patients with premalignant lesions (such as intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms) that are followed-up at our Institution, to detect any clinic-radiological progression. Subjects older than 18 will be enrolled.
Group B
The enrolment criteria were the following :
- Having at least 45 years of age or 10 years younger than the age of the youngest relative with pancreatic cancer (only for subject with familiar history of pancreatic cancer)
- Having at least 40 years of age or 5 years younger than the age of the youngest relative with pancreatic cancer (only for subject with familial pancreatitis and subject affected by Lynch syndrome with at least one relative first- or second-degree affected by pancreatic cancer and subject having a known genetic mutation with at least a first-degree relative or a second-degree relative affected by pancreatic cancer
- Having at least 30 years of age for subject with Familial Multiple Melanoma Syndrome
- Having at least 30 years of age for patients affected by Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
The interview of pilot group will be record to allow us to investigate and track detail that will highlight the comprehension of cancer worry scale and participants' suggestion.
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients who not meet eligibility criteria
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
Cohorts and Interventions
Group / Cohort |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Italian patients suffering from mucinous neoplasms
Italian patients suffering from mucinous neoplasms will follow a brief interview made by a psychologist.
The interview of pilot group will be record to allow us to investigate and track detail that will highlight the comprehension of cancer worry scale and participants' suggestion.
Moreover during the session will be ask to patients to fill inn Irritability-Depression-Anxiety Scale and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to evaluate other psycho-emotional information about fear of cancer
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To develop and validate the Italian version of Cancer worry scale using high risk subjects for familiarity/genetic predisposition and patients with premalignant lesions.
Other Names:
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Italian patients with familiarity/genetic predisposition
Italian patients with familiarity/genetic predisposition will follow a brief interview made by a psychologist.
The interview of pilot group will be record to allow us to investigate and track detail that will highlight the comprehension of cancer worry scale and participants' suggestion.
Moreover during the session will be ask to patients to fill inn Irritability-Depression-Anxiety Scale and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to evaluate other psycho-emotional information about fear of cancer
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To develop and validate the Italian version of Cancer worry scale using high risk subjects for familiarity/genetic predisposition and patients with premalignant lesions.
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Syntactic and semantic equivalence of Cancer worry scale' items between English and Italian language and vice versa
Time Frame: 1 month
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the Syntactic and semantic equivalence of scale between two languages will be verified through the evaluation of differential item functioning analysis
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1 month
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Face Validity of cancer worry scale on Italian subjects
Time Frame: 6 months
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Face Validity will be measured through the evaluation of Clarity/ comprehensibility of each item of cancer worry scale (format and meaning)
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6 months
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Exploratory comparison between Patients Health Questionnaire and Irritability Depression Anxiety Scale and cancer worry scale
Time Frame: 9 months
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the comparison will be done considering the total score of scales
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9 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ANTICIPATED)
Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 2458 CWS
Drug and device information, study documents
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