Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Cancer Survivors, Neoplasms, Oncology, Sexual Health, Sexual Dysfunction, physiological, Sexual Dysfunctions, psychological, Sexuality, Barrier, Facilitator, Professional-Patient Relations, Communication
Brief summary
The aim of this survey study is to provide broad information as reported by cancer survivors and their intimate partners about both their sexual health and their experiences of care from the United Kingdom hospital cancer team, including their perspectives on factors that may hinder or help care. This information will be analysed and used to inform the questions asked in a separate, subsequent, qualitative study.
Interventions
OTHERNo intervention
No intervention
Sponsors
National Institute for Health Research, Applied Research Collaboration, Wessex
Fortuneswell Cancer Trust
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Bournemouth University
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Cancer survivors diagnosed with any type of cancer at age 18 years or over 2. A partner of someone diagnosed with any type of cancer at age 18 years or over 3. Cancer diagnosis must be no more than 10 years ago 4. Cancer survivors or their partners who experienced treatment and follow up care in the United Kingdom
Exclusion criteria
1. Cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer below the age of 18 years 2. Partners of cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer below the age of 18 years 3. Cancer diagnosis was more than 10 years ago 4. Cancer survivors/partners of survivors where the cancer treatment and follow up was not in the United Kingdom 5. Previous completion of the survey
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants who had a sexual health discussion(s) with the hospital cancer team at any point during cancer care | Up to 10 years prior to completing survey (discussion(s) about sexual health could have occurred at any point during cancer care) | Sexual health discussion:19 examples of the sort of topics that may have been discussed in relation to sexual health |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants with specific levels of impact on their sex lives by cancer and its treatments | From each individual participants' cancer diagnosis/cancer treatment until the date that they completed the survey | As above |
| Survey questionnaire to measure the nature and prevalence of care for sexual health that cancer survivors and their intimate partners self-report experiencing from the UK hospital cancer team. | Participants can report care received from prior to their cancer treatment through to their follow-up care (last 10 years only) | An online survey questionnaire (no validated questionnaire available and therefore research created the questionnaire based on a literature reviews on sexual health in oncology |
| Survey questionnaire to measure the nature and prevalence of the perceived barriers to and facilitators for care for sexual health as received by cancer survivors and their intimate partners when provided by the UK hospital cancer team. | Participants can report their perceptions from diagnosis through to their follow-up care (last 10 years only) | As above |
| Survey questionnaire to measure to what extent groups of cancer survivors and their intimate partners with differing characteristics receive differing care for their sexual health from the UK hospital cancer team. | Participants diagnosed with cancer in the previous 10 years. | Participants' responses from outcomes 1-4 will be used toinform this outcome |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed