An observational study in Colorectal Cancer, Depression and Fatigue, sponsored by City of Hope Medical Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2011-03-02.
Sponsored by City of Hope Medical Center · Observational
RATIONALE: Studying a patient's understanding of his or her illness, pain, symptoms, and quality-of-life may help the study of advanced cancer and may help patients live more comfortably.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying pain and symptom distress in patients with advanced colon cancer, rectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, or liver cancer.
OBJECTIVES:
OUTLINE: Patients undergo an empirical examination of illness perceptions as predictors of disease, specifically from the five domains in the Common Sense Model. Patients undergo an assessment of the relationship between influencing characteristics (i.e., sociodemographic), symptoms, and behavioral factors (i.e., illness perceptions, overall symptom distress, and quality of life). Patients complete questionnaires to evaluate demographics by the Sociodemographic, Disease, and Health Status Tool; illness perception by the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R); symptoms and symptom distress by the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) and Brief Pain Inventory; and quality of life by the SF-12. Patients also undergo a medical chart review and self-report on sociodemographic characteristics.
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Patients receiving treatment at the City of Hope Medical Center.
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically confirmed colon, rectal, pancreatic, or liver (i.e., hepatocellular carcinoma) cancer
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Illness perception as indicated in the five domains of the Common Sense Model (i.e., identity, cause, time line, consequences, controllability) and their relationship to symptom distress
Time frame: At study entry
Pain and other symptoms, and their relationship to overall symptom distress
Time frame: At study entry
Overall quality of life (QOL) and its specific summary scales
Time frame: At study entry
Relationship among characteristics (i.e., sociodemographic, disease, health status) associated with illness perceptions, overall symptom distress, and QOL)
Time frame: At study entry
This study is completed, as verified in Feb 2011. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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