Cancer Diagnosis
Conditions
Brief summary
The target population includes cancer patients, caregivers, family members, healthcare providers and mental health specialists, who will be the primary end-users of the Althea platform. For patients, survivors, caregivers, and family members, the sample variables include age, gender, type and stage of disease, and time since the first diagnosis. The healthcare professionals that will be involved in this study are those who attend to oncological patients, with sample variables such as age, gender, professional role, and prior experience and training in oncology or psycho-oncology.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPatients, survivors, caregivers, family members and healthcare professionals
Focus group discussions (FGD) and completion of survey
Sponsors
European Institute of Oncology
European Union
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS: * Healthcare professionals actually working in oncology and/or psychooncology; * Teachers of paediatric cancer patients. ADULT POPULATION: * Patients with a current or previous cancer diagnosis * Adequate language proficiency, * Able to provide informed consent; PAEDIATRIC POPULATION: * Older than 12 years of age; * Patients with a current or previous cancer diagnosis; * Adequate language proficiency; * Legal guardians of paediatric cancer patients able to provide informed consent. CAREGIVERS: * Caregivers and/or family members of cancer patients who lived or assist the loved ones with a current or previous cancer diagnosis in the cancer journey; * Adequate language proficiency; * Able to provide informed consent; * Caregivers and/or family members of paediatric cancer patients under 12 years of age.
Exclusion criteria
* Healthcare professionals with limited oncology patient contact; * Insufficient knowledge of the local language; * Severe cognitive impairment, and/or mental disorders that prohibited their participation in the study or inadequate verbal skills that may render them incapable of informed consent (as evaluated by the clinician); * Inability to understand the study materials (as evaluated by the clinician); * Physical or psychological impairment that prohibits their participation in focus groups (as evaluated by the clinician).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of unmet needs of patients, caregivers and Health Care Professionals (HCPs) | 15 months | Number of unmet needs reported by patients, caregivers and Health Care Professionals (HCPs) |
Countries
France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Spain
Contacts
CONTACTGabriella Pravettoni, MD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORGabriella Pravettoni, MD
European Institute of Oncology
Outcome results
None listed