This study focuses on providing an educational program for people/participants with bladder cancer who plan to have a cystectomy (surgery) as part of their standard care. Participants in this study will watch videos designed to teach them strategies to help lower their risk of experiencing negative side effects (such as mobility problems, issues with taking medication, and poor quality of life) before and after they have surgery. They will also be asked to fill out questionnaires.
This study focuses on providing an educational program for participants/people with bladder cancer who plan to have a cystectomy (surgery) as part of their standard care. Participants in this study will watch videos designed to teach them strategies to help lower their risk of experiencing negative side effects (such as mobility problems, issues with taking medication, and poor quality of life) before and after they have surgery. The goal of this study is to educate people with bladder cancer and ask them to also fill out questionnaires about the education program and if they used any of the strategies that learn during the study. Participants in this study will be divided into two different study groups (one group that watches educational videos before surgery and one group that watches educational videos before surgery and also receives geriatric services and follow up visits after surgery). Each participant will be randomized (randomly assigned) to one of two study groups. That means that there is a 50/50 chance (like flipping a coin) that each participant will end up in either group.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
85
An educational program designed by geriatricians, surgeons, anesthesiologists and palliative care physicians to help people with bladder cancer who plan to receive a cystectomy learn strategies to improve their mobility, medication management, mental clarity/delirium and how they document important side effects or health issues after surgery.
A geriatric team will meet with participants after surgery to help them reinforce the strategies they learned in the education video sessions. As part of a geriatric service, this team will also help participants plan/coordinate their discharge from the hospital after surgery.
These questionnaires will ask about the participants' mobility, frailty, quality of life and additional health/risk factors before and after surgery.
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
RECRUITINGNumber of Participants Referred to Educational Program
Assess the feasibility of an educational program designed for participants undergoing radical cystectomy by measuring the number of participants referred to the study team/program.
Time frame: 90 days
Survey responses from participants who completed some or all of educational program
Assess the acceptability of an educational program designed for participants undergoing radical cystectomy by measuring/surveying the number of study participants who completed at least some of the intervention.
Time frame: 90 days
Number of self-reported interventions/strategies used among participants after watching educational videos
Assess the adoptability of an educational program designed for participants undergoing radical cystectomy by measuring the number of self-reported interventions that participants reported after the educational program
Time frame: 90 days
30-day Hospital Readmission Rates Among All Participants
Assess impact of educational program by comparing the differences between hospital readmission rate at 30 days between both study cohorts.
Time frame: 30 days
90-day Hospital Readmission Rates Among All Participants
Assess impact of educational program by comparing the differences between hospital readmission rate at 90 days between both study cohorts.
Time frame: 90 days
Complication Rates Reported Among Participants
Assess impact of educational program by comparing the differences between complication rates reported among study participants in both groups.
Time frame: 90 days
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