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Studying the effect of peer educational support on anxiety levels in elderly candidates for chemotherapy with gastrointestinal cancer

Studying the effect of peer educational support on anxiety levels in elderly candidates for chemotherapy with gastrointestinal cancer

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
IRCT
Registry ID
IRCT20250816066866N1
Enrollment
90
Registered
2025-08-21
Start date
2025-09-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-09-15

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Conditions

Patients with gastrointestinal cancers. ?????????? ??????

Interventions

Intervention 1: Intervention group:. Intervention 2: Control group:.

Sponsors

Bojnourd University of Medical Sciences
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
20 Years to 60 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: No history of participating in chemotherapy training courses within the past six months Being literate Not taking anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medications Having one of the digestive cancers as diagnosed by the treating physician and recorded in the patient's medical record

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Incomplete participation (more than 1 absent session) in educational classes, occurrence of any type of severe anxiety-provoking event, including the death of a first-degree relative, accident, experience of violence during the study

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Beck's anxiety score. Timepoint: Each session lasted about 40 minutes, and the training sessions were held four times a day, one day a week, at a fixed time interval of one week. Method of measurement: Beck's anxiety questionnaire.

Countries

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

Public ContactBajgiran Alinezhad Samira

Bojnourd University of Medical Sciences

info@nkums.ac.ir+98 58 3151 0000

Outcome results

None listed

Source: IRCT (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026