None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
There are 283 new outpatients each month registered to cancer care services at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). The first visit of oncology patients and families to an outpatient cancer centre often causes intense anxiety and negative emotions. Recent nursing initiatives in cancer care services include a multidisciplinary orientation program for the head and neck cancer patients. This multidisciplinary orientation program will be extended to all newly registered cancer patients in 2009. This pilot study will evaluate the effects of the multi-disciplinary orientation program on the levels of self-efficacy and anxiety of newly registered cancer patients at the RBWH.
Interventions
Intervention is a structured orientation program conducted by a multidisciplinary health care team with the main aims to let patients familiarise themselves with the treatment centre, health professionals and treatment. This orientation will be conducted as a single time 90 minute face to face workshop in a group.
Sponsors
Cancer Care Services
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Cancer patients who are newly registered to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. 2. Patients who has a definitive diagnosis of breast cancer, lung cancer or Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Patients who have not received any kind of formal education about cancer. 3. Patients who will be undergoing radiation therapy or chemotherapy 4. Patients who can read and write English
Exclusion criteria
1. Patients who is unable to consent 2. Patients who is unable to read and write English 3. Patients who previous receive any form of formal cancer education 4. Patients who have previous cancer treatments
Outcome results
None listed