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Survival Expectations and Hope Among Cancer Patients at End-of-Life

NCT03325218 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 214

Last updated 2025-02-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Literature shows that less than half of advanced cancer patients accurately understand their prognosis, with most being overly optimistic. Investigators suspect that many patients are reporting not what they believe, but what they would like to believe. This study aims to discern patient's beliefs about prognosis independent of hope, to identify factors that influence patient's beliefs, and to explore patient preferences for prognostic information.

Investigators propose to randomize 200 cancer patients with a prognosis of less than one year to receive one of the two versions of a survey. Investigators hypothesize that, although many patients will continue to be overly optimistic about their prognosis, those patients responding to Version 2, followed by Version 1, will provide more accurate estimates.

Efforts to improve decision making require an understanding of patients' beliefs and preferences for receiving prognostic information and identifying strategies to clearly convey that information. This study will fill that gap.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Centre, Singapore

    collaborator OTHER

  • National University Hospital, Singapore

    collaborator OTHER

  • Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-04-01
Primary Completion
2019-05-31
Completion
2022-03-31

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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