NCT01419210

Pilot Program to Personalize Care & Improve Quality of Life for Women With Ovarian Cancer

A Pilot Program to Personalize Care by Integrating Traditional and Complementary Medicine for Women With Ovarian Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out if complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) should be included with traditional therapy for women with ovarian cancer. Some of the alternative medicines include non-traditional drug and herbal therapies along with dietary and nutritional strategies. Only a few of these alternative medicines have been tested with women with ovarian cancer.

Detailed description

The study will be offered to women with ovarian cancer who are receiving care at the Gynecologic Oncology Clinic at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Prospective candidates, identified via chart review, will receive a mailing that describes and invites them to be screened for eligibility. Potential participants seen in the clinic will also be approached and invited to participate. The informed consent process and pretesting will take place in the clinic, with exceptions made as needed for women who prefer to complete documents at home. The intervention, which will consist of four educational CAM sessions, will be held on site in a private room at Moffitt Cancer Center. Immediately before and after each session, we will administer a brief on-site pre- and post-test. Upon completion of the intervention, participants will be asked to complete a post-test on site or at home, depending on their preference. Follow-up telephone calls will be made to the participants at 8 weeks after the last session. Pre- and post-test measures will focus on quality of life, prior use of CAM therapies, topic preferences, knowledge gained from the presentations, changed intentions and behaviors associated with CAM, and satisfaction with the program.

Conditions

• Ovarian Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pre-study Questionnaire	Assess the interest level for various CAM topics through feedback received from the study participants
OTHER	Educational Presentations	Attend a two-hour presentation each week for four weeks
OTHER	CAM Therapies	Integrate the CAM topics of highest interest into participant's regular care
OTHER	Post-study Questionnaire	Examine the data to see if it supports recommending a larger, multi-site, integrative CAM program for other women with ovarian cancer

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2011-08-18
• Last updated: 2015-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States