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Interactive Voice Response System in Advanced Cancer Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00625638

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Official title

Symptom Assessment in Advanced Cancer Patients Using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System

Brief summary

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The goal of this research study is to learn if using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system can bring about better and more timely symptom control for patients with advanced cancer. Primary Objectives: * To determine whether the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, supplemented by Nursing Telephone Intervention (NTI), results in better symptom management and quality of life than standard care for individuals with advanced cancer as evidenced by reduced scores on symptom measures. * To determine whether the IVR system, supplemented by NTI, results in reduced caregiver burden, increased caregiver satisfaction with care, and improved coping strategies. * To determine the feasibility of using an IVR system, supplemented by NTI, for symptom assessment in individuals with advanced cancer and their caregivers by conducting a process evaluation of the system. Variables to be evaluated include rates of participant recruitment and retention, frequency of use of the system, acceptability of the system to participants, and barriers to participation. Researchers' goal is to identify and improve aspects that affect external validity (recruitment rate, cohort maintenance), internal validity (implementation, contamination), participant acceptability and satisfaction, and reaction to study procedures. The findings from this evaluation will also allow researchers to evaluate delivery of interventions in future studies.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00625638
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
136 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Behavioral · Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Jan 27, 2008
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2022
Completion
Dec 1, 2022
Last update posted
Sep 20, 2023

2008 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas 77030

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