cancer-related fatigue
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: MOSAIC is designed as a cross-sectional, anonymous, web-based survey conducted via the established German patient engagement platform fragdiepatienten.de. The study targets individuals with a
Sponsors
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Self-reported current or past diagnosis of any cancer type - Individuals at any stage of the cancer trajectory, including active treatment, remission, and long-term survivorship - Individuals with sufficient German language proficiency to complete the survey (The capacity to give consent should exist) - Experiencing or having experienced fatigue
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - not able to complete the survey online via smartphone, PC, or tablet
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The overarching aim is to identify patient-reported symptom and experiential descriptors of CRF that distinguish between distinct CRF phenotypes and may serve as proxies for different underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| In detail, the study aims - to identify indicators of different CRF patterns based on hypothesized mechanisms as well as patient-derived metaphorical CRF descriptors - to identify latent phenotypes of CRF based on these items and characterize them according to their psychosocial and symptom characteristics - to investigate identified phenotypes according to the established EORTC QLQ-FA12 questionnaire, which does not assess phenotype but severity of physical, emotional, and cognitive fatigue dimensions | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactMartina Schmidt / Dr. Patricia Blickle
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Outcome results
None listed