C00-C97 F30-F39 F40-F48
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Cancer patients in in-patient treatment fill in questionnaires before discharge consultation and after discharge: A modified German version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (Portenoy
Zigmond & Snaith, 1983, German Version: Herrmann-Lingen, Buss, & Snaith, 2011) for capturing anxiety and depressive symptoms. After discharge consultation, they fill in a modified version of the quest
Sponsors
Psychosoziale Krebsberatungsstelle, Tumorzentrum CCCF, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Precondition for participation is that patients are oncological patients during in-patient stay and are imminent to hospital discharge. The participation is only possible, if the patients' Karnofsky score is above 60. Sufficient knowledge in German.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: If the medical practitioners that treat the participating patients don't participate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Symptom distress shall be measured with a modified German Version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (Portenoy et al., 1994, German version: Spichiger et al., 2011). Anxiety and depressive symptoms are captured with the modified German version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS; Zigmond & Snaith, 1983; German version: Herrmann-Lingen, Buss & Snaith, 2011). Symptom distress, anxiety and depressive symptoms are captured before the discharge consultation, after the discharge consultation before discharge and after discharge. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The progress of symptom distress, anxiety and depressive symptoms between the measurements 1 and 2 shall be ascertained as differences between the times of measurements based on the results of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (Spichiger et al., 2011) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (Herrmann-Lingen, Buss & Snaith, 2011). For capturing the patients' evaluation of communication, a modified German version of the Communication Assessment Tool (Makoul, Krupat, & Chang, 2007, German version) is used. The data is captured after the discharge consultation. Medical practitioners distress is captured with a visual analogue scale before the discharge consultation. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactNatalie;Alexander Röderer;Wünsch
Psychosoziale Krebsberatungsstelle, Tumorzentrum CCCF, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg;Psychosoziale Krebsberatungsstelle, Tumorzentrum CCCF, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Outcome results
None listed