NCT03927183

Extended Support for Persons With Pituitary Tumours After Surgery

Extended Support Within a Person-centred Practice After Surgery: a Quasi- Experimental Study for Persons With Pituitary Tumours

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: Göteborg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients with pituitary tumours often live with life-long consequences of their disease. Treatment options include surgery, radiotherapy and medical therapy. Symptoms associated with the tumour and/or its treatment affects several areas of life. The year after pituitary surgery constitutes an important time-period with medical evaluations of surgery and decisions on hormonal substitution. The development and evaluation of extended patient support during this time-point is limited. Care based on person-centredness has exclusively been promoted which comprises a care where care providers inquire how patients view their health situation and what their needs, resources, and preferences are. Person-centredness focuses on preserving patient autonomy, function, and well-being and strives to emphasize patient involvement through equalizing power between health care professionals and the patient with the main goal of an enhanced health situation. The aim of the study is to evaluate if a support within a person-centered care practice one year after surgery increases wellbeing for patients with pituitary tumours.

Conditions

• Pituitary Tumor Benign
• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	person-centred practice	The structure and content of the intervention is constructed on principles for person-centredness. Each patients in the intervention are allocated a hospital-initiated nurse care manager during one year after surgery. Self-management support is primarily conducted between the patient and the nurse care manager. The primary goal of the support is to facilitate patients own resources in managing illness and health education on e.g. physical activity and diet. The support also comprises patient-held documentation and health plan. Other components of the intervention comprise accessibility and continuity which is secured by a structured clinical care pathway with planned care and defined care contacts. The patient has continuous access to the nurse care manager by telephone and face-to-face contact according to a structured follow-up plan. An interdisciplinary team as well as a patient education program constitutes distinct parts of the support during the year after surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-06
• Primary completion: 2022-02-28
• Completion: 2022-02-28
• First posted: 2019-04-25
• Last updated: 2025-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden