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Development and Evaluation of a Therapeutic Education Intervention in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Radical Prostatectomy to Improve Their Sexuality

NCT03572621 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 240

Last updated 2022-03-07

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Summary

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in France (54,000 cases in 2011). About 20,000 radical prostatectomies (PR) per year are performed. Despite the progress of PR over the past 20 years, the rate of erectile dysfunction post PR varies between 30 and 90% and only 16% of operated men recover their pre-treatment erections.

There is currently no validated post-prostatectomy rehabilitation protocol. The associations of patients, including the National Association of Prostate Cancer Patients have a very strong demand for treatment of sexual problems after treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Therapeutic education

Patients will benefit from the first session of preoperative therapeutic education, then the next 5 sessions will be done postoperatively over a period of 4 month and a half. Session 1: The first session will be devoted appropriately to patient education. It will take place on the day of the preoperative anesthesia consultation. Session 2: day of discharge from hospital. Make the patient adhere to the concept of post PR erectile rehabilitation in the same way as sphincter reeducation. Session 3: Presentation of available treatments, start intracavernous injections. Session 4: Acquisition of know-how on treatment management. Reduce anxiety. Session 5: Encourage the resumption of intercourse very gradually. The presence of the partner will be advised. Session 6: measure of the evolution of the representations and knowledge of the patient. The skills of the patient will be evaluated from problem situations, motivation scale. The know-how will be evaluated using observation grid.

OTHER

Collection of data concerning their sexuality

Patients in the control group are offered to participate in the study, which consists of collecting data on their sexuality. This in addition to the current care by the teams of care about erectile rehabilitation (information and medication prescriptions).

OTHER

Participation

Participation in a therapeutic education day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jean-Etienne TERRIER, MD · Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-03
Primary Completion
2023-02-28
Completion
2024-09-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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