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Transitoriness in Cancer Patients, Psychosocial Issues in Cancer Care

NCT00364078 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 193

Last updated 2008-05-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Transitoriness can be defined as confrontation with life's finitude. Cancer patients are perceived to experience this confrontation due to their diagnosis. It is perceived to impact cancer patients' ways of coping with the disease situation. In this study, cancer patients' levels of uncertainty, transitoriness and their perceived locus of control are assessed. It is aimed at exploring the association of uncertainty, locus of control, transitoriness and quality of life. If a stronger correlation of one or the other issue with quality of life can be discovered, it will inform the development of an adequate evidence-based nursing intervention to better support patients' coping with the disease.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swiss Cancer League

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anne E Belcher, PhD · Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-06-30
Primary Completion
2007-05-31
Completion
2007-08-31

Countries

  • United States

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