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Effects of Telephone Consultations on Discharged Liver Cancer

NCT01595243 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 254

Last updated 2020-11-16

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Summary

The aims of this three-year study are to:

1. From patients and family perspective to explore the needs for home care after receiving TACE, PEI, and RFA
2. Develop a telephone follow-up and consultation program and examine its effect on self-efficacy, anxiety, depression and quality of life in liver cancer patients receiving non-surgical treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

telephone consultations about psychoeducation program

experimental group will receive seven instances of telephone follow-up or face-to-face education (the day before discharge and during the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, and eighth weeks after discharge).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shiow-ching shun, PhD · National Taiwan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Diseases

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