RATIONALE: Understanding how well patients comply with their treatment regimen may help doctors determine best treatment and ongoing care for future patients. PURPOSE: This phase I study is looking at compliance with vaginal dilation therapy in women who have undergone radiation therapy for stage IB, stage IIA, stage IIB, stage IIIA, or stage IIIB cervical cancer or stage IA, stage IB, stage IIA, or stage IIB endometrial cancer.
OBJECTIVES: Primary * To determine adherence to vaginal dilation therapy after radiotherapy in patients with early-stage IB grade 2-IIIB cervical cancer or stage IA grade 3-IIB endometrial cancer. * To identify demographic, medical, and psychosocial factors associated with adherence to recommendations for vaginal dilation in these patients. * To describe the sexual, marital, and non-marital dyadic functioning of these patients. OUTLINE: Patients from the IMPAC registry in Radiation Oncology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center complete questionnaires online or by mail. Questionnaires include the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire, and the Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
83
Patients from the IMPAC registry in Radiation Oncology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center complete questionnaires online or by mail. Questionnaires include the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire, and the Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire.
Patients from the IMPAC registry in Radiation Oncology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center complete questionnaires online or by mail. Questionnaires include the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire, and the Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire.
Patients from the IMPAC registry in Radiation Oncology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center complete questionnaires online or by mail. Questionnaires include the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire, and the Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire.
Patients from the IMPAC registry in Radiation Oncology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center complete questionnaires online or by mail. Questionnaires include the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire, and the Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire.
Patients from the IMPAC registry in Radiation Oncology at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center complete questionnaires online or by mail. Questionnaires include the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire, and the Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire.
Geauga Regional Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Lake/University Ireland Cancer Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
University Suburban Health Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
UHHS Chagrin Highlands Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Southwest General Health Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
UHHS Westlake Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Mercy Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Adherence to vaginal dilation therapy after radiotherapy as measured by the Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire
Time frame: one time questionaire
Demographic, medical, & psychosocial factors assoc. with adherence to vaginal dilation by Vaginal Dilation Adherence questionnaire, Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire, & Physician/Nurse Recommendation of Vaginal Dilation questionnaire
Time frame: one time questionaire
Sexual, marital, and non-marital dyadic functioning as measured by the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire and the Dyadic Satisfaction questionnaire
Time frame: one time questionaire
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