NCT02379260

Development of a Therapeutic Education Program for Patients Operated for Prostate Cancer

Development of a Therapeutic Education Intervention Improving Sexuality in Patients With Prostate Cancer Treated With Radical Prostatectomy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut de Cancérologie de la Loire · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim is to built a Therapeutic Education Program for patients treated with radical prostatectomy in order to improve their sexuality. This study is carried out in two steps : * Identification of specific educational objectives through a sociological study, with interviews and focus groups conducted and analyzed by a sociologist. Patients from the urology department of the hospital center (CH) Lyon Sud - Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) will be included * Development of the program by a caregiver education expert (Centre Hygée), adapted partly from results of the qualitative study and partly from concepts and tools from the Education Sciences.

Detailed description

8 patients and 2 urologists will be interview to explore the educational needs and to create, expand and validate an interview guide. Exploratory interviews with urologists will address information given to patients on post radical prostatectomy sexual dysfunction, prescribing practices, monitoring therapy (PDE5 inhibitors, IIC, Vacuum), and patients adverse effects management. Focus groups will be conduct to : * Identify the representations associated with erectile dysfunction * Identify the representations related to treatments for erectile dysfunction. * Score patient knowledge about treatments and their managements. * Identify common or original strategies to improve adherence, reduce side effects and overcome the disadvantages of the treatments. * Assessing the needs and expectations of patients

Conditions

• Prostate Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Interview with a sociologist

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-11-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2015-03-04
• Last updated: 2016-02-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France