MedTrace Logo

Emotional Impact of the Way Conducting Cancer Patients to the Surgical Center

NCT03576482 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 176

Last updated 2021-09-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Cancer is an extremely aggressive disease, anxiety and depression are consequences some patients may develop from diagnosis continuing during treatment. A measures control of the cancer is surgery for removal tumor. The surgical procedure is often a difficult experience for patients and their relatives, and patients in the preoperative period are often psychological symptoms of anxiety and depression. A previous study with the objective analyzing patient's emotional repercussion according the type of transport to the surgical center reached the following result: patients who go to the surgical center feel more relaxed in the preoperative period.

The primary objective is to analyze emotional repercussion of patient diagnosed with cancer classified in Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0 and 1 according type transport to the surgical center.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Transport on foot

Patients go to operating room walking with their families and with their normal clothes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Barretos Cancer Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gabriela da S Oliveira, Nurse · Barretos Cancer Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-07
Primary Completion
2021-08-30
Completion
2021-08-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT03576482 on ClinicalTrials.gov