Working towards meeting the information needs of patients with head and neck cancer and their partner, carer or family member. A randomised study comparing DVD and internet resources versus standard patient education.

A randomised clinical trial to examine anxiety levels in patients with head and neck cancer by comparing standard pre and post-operative patient education to DVD/internet-based education.

Status

Terminated

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12614001104640

Acronym

MINT study

Enrollment

Registered

2014-10-17

Start date

2015-10-20

Completion date

2016-06-13

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study will evaluate the use of a pre- and post-operative DVD or web-based patient education for patients undergoing surgery for head and neck cancer. Who is it for? You may be eligible to join this study if you aged 18 years or above and have been diagnosed with primary early-stage head and neck cancer and your treatment plan includes surgery. Study details Participants in this study are randomly allocated (by chance) to one of two groups. Participants in one group will receive a DVD, or be directed to a website, that provides them with pre- and post-operative educational information on the surgical management of head and neck cancer. While participants in the other group receive a standard pre- and post-operative education of provision of the Cancer Council Head and Neck Information Booklet. Participants will be asked to answer questionnaires on anxiety levels and quality of life before the operation, at discharge and 3 months after the operation. Partners and family members will also be asked to answer questionnaires at the same time periods as the patient.

Interventions

Those randomised to intervention will receive the intervention DVD (or website for those with internet access) for pre and post-operative education as well as the standard hard copy booklet. As the pre-operative time is variable, it will be up to the participant to view the video, and it can be viewed as many times as the participant chooses. Post-oerpatively it is also up to the participant when to view the video. The video-based intervention contains presentations about key issues faced during surgical treatment for head and neck cancer and will take up to 60 minutes to view. The patient is also contacted at 3 timepoints of: -pre-op clinic -at discharge from hospital after surgery -at 3 months post-surgery At these timepoints patients will be asked what parts of the video they may have watched.

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 No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Written informed consent -18 years and older -diagnosed with a primary, early-stage head and neck cancer and -treatment plan includes surgery. -Patients and their carers or family members also need sufficient fluency in English and be cognitively able to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

-Do not meet inclusion criteria. -Pregnant females

Outcome results