NCT03443258

Needs Assessment Tool Integrated in Clinical Practice of Head and Neck Cancer Rehabilitation

Needs Assessment and Decision-making Tool (NEAT-decision) Integrated in a Clinical Practice to Enhance Patient Involvement in Head and Neck Cancer Rehabilitation - a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 93 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study tests a needs assessment and decision-making tool with patients who are in need of rehabilitation after surgery for Head and Neck Cancer. The purpose is to enhance patient involvement in decision-making.

Detailed description

The study tests a needs assessment and decision-making tool with patients surgically treated for Head and Neck Cancer. The tool will be an integrated part of a new clinical practice with nursing consultations at three seperate time-points in the post-surgical period of the patients. Half of the participants will receive nursing consultations using the tool and the other half will receive standard care.

Conditions

• Head and Neck Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Needs assesment tool integrated in nursing consultation.	Needs assessment tool consisting of 57 items related to functional, emotional, social and existential areas guide follow-up care and referral to multidisciplinary team rehabilitation e.g. dietician; speech-pathologist; psychologist, etc

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-11
• Primary completion: 2019-11-15
• Completion: 2019-11-30
• First posted: 2018-02-23
• Last updated: 2020-10-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark