Educational Brochure in Preparing Patients With Gastric Cancer and Their Caregivers for Recovery After Surgery

City of Hope Medical Center

Overview

This pilot clinical trial studies an educational brochure in preparing patients with gastric cancer and their caregivers for recovery after surgery. Giving an educational brochure may help prepare patients and their caregivers by improving knowledge about symptoms after surgery. It may also improve quality of life and reduce worry after surgery.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To pilot test an educational intervention in the form of a teaching brochure to prepare patients and informal caregivers for recovery following partial or total gastrectomy. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To describe preliminary effect of the intervention on patient-reported outcomes (PROs), informal caregiver-reported outcomes, and clinical/system outcomes. OUTLINE: Participants are enrolled sequentially to 1 of 2 cohorts. COHORT I: Participants receive standard post-operative care. COHORT II: Participants receive a 2-page educational brochure after surgery and prior to discharge home. After completion of study, participants are followed up for approximately 2 months.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Conditions

Anxiety Gastric Carcinoma Stress

Interventions

Educational InterventionOTHER

Receive educational brochure

Standard Follow-Up CarePROCEDURE

Receive standard post-operative care

Quality-of-Life AssessmentPROCEDURE

Ancillary studies

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 21 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients will be accrued using the following inclusion criteria: * Scheduled to undergo partial or total gastrectomy for treatment of gastric cancer * Able to read and understand English * Informal Caregivers will be accrued using the following inclusion criteria: * The primary informal caregiver as identified by patients participating in the study; this refers to either a family member or friend who will be providing the majority of care following surgery * Able to read and understand English * All participants must have the ability to understand the willingness to provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study

Locations (1)

City of Hope Medical Center

Duarte, California, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Patient/informal caregiver satisfaction with timing, content, and delivery of the intervention

Descriptive statistics will be presented through summary statistics of data from the satisfaction tools.

Time frame: Up to 2 months

Secondary Outcomes

Change in mean survey scores

Data will be summarized using descriptive statistics. Statistics will be tabulated for each sequentially enrolled cohort.

Time frame: Baseline up to 4 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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