NCT03360799

Questionnaires in Assessing Attitudes About Legalization of Marijuana Use in Participants With Cancer

A Comparison of the Attitudes About Legalization of Marijuana Use for Medical Purposes by Cancer Patients in Two Cancer Centers Located in a Legalized and a Non-Legalized State

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial studies attitudes about legalization of marijuana use in participants with cancer. Questionnaires may help doctors to learn about and compare the attitudes that patients in non-legalized and legalized states have towards the legalization of medical marijuana.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To compare the proportion of cancer patients' who have a positive attitude about legalizing marijuana for medical purposes between those in a legalized versus (vs.) a non-legalized state. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the association of cancer patients' belief in the usefulness of medical marijuana in their state of residency (Texas versus Arizona). II. To examine the association of demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients and their perception of medical marijuana. III. To examine the preference of patients for treatment of pain, anxiety and depression between medical marijuana vs. opioids, anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications. IV. To examine the association of media to perception of use of medical marijuana. V. To evaluate the association of cancer patients' attitude about legalizing marijuana for medical purposes vs. recreational purposes. VI. To examine the association of patients who have used marijuana for certain medical conditions/symptoms and their belief of how it has affected that condition/symptom. VII. To compare demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients who have used marijuana for medical purposes. VIII. To compare demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients who have used marijuana for non-medical purposes. IX. To compare demographic, physical and psychosocial characteristics of patients who believe marijuana is useful for medical reasons. OUTLINE: Participants complete 5 questionnaires.

Conditions

• Malignant Neoplasm

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire Administration	Complete questionnaires

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-17
• Primary completion: 2019-08-26
• Completion: 2019-08-26
• First posted: 2017-12-04
• Last updated: 2019-08-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States