NCT02075580

Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices: Quality of Life and Body Image

Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices (TIVAD): Impact on Quality of Life and Body Image

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Our hypothesis is that totally Implantable Venous Access Devices in neoplastic patients modify body image and self-representation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of psychological intervention on patients undergone this surgical practice.

Conditions

• Neoplasms Undergoing Chemotherapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	psychological support (interactive/cognitive strategies)	* cognitive/behavioural intervention (6 times starting from hospital admission, in 90 days; for arm of intervention) * metacognitive techniques (6 times starting from hospital admission, in 90 days; for arm of intervention) * psychoeducational intervention (6 times starting from hospital admission; for arm of intervention) * questionnaires: EORTC questionnaires and a written structured interview (3 times: hospital admission,15 days after surgical intervention, 90 days after intervention; in both arms)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-09-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2014-03-03
• Last updated: 2019-02-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy