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Modernizing Instructions to Improve Treatment Participation of Subjects During Their First Radiotherapy

Description

Daily patient participation is critical to the successful, life-saving delivery of radiotherapy. There is very little in the literature describing the best way to prepare patients to give optimal participation. This study aims to look at an already-prepared conversion of patient instruction materials and measure whether the improvement in clarity and specificity produces the desired changes in patient decision-making and emotional comfort.

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Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Daily patient participation is critical to the successful, life-saving delivery of radiotherapy. There is very little in the literature describing the best way to prepare patients to give optimal participation. This study aims to look at an already-prepared conversion of patient instruction materials and measure whether the improvement in clarity and specificity produces the desired changes in patient decision-making and emotional comfort.

Modernizing Instructions to Improve Treatment Participation of Subjects During Their First Radiotherapy

Modernizing Instructions to Improve Treatment Participation of Subjects During Their First Radiotherapy

Condition
Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Gainesville

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32608

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Patients ≥ 18 years old planning their first external beam radiotherapy
  • * Written informed consent obtained from the subject and the subject agrees to comply with all the study-related procedures.
  • * Have received external beam radiotherapy in the past
  • * External beam radiotherapy is initiated as inpatient.
  • * External beam radiotherapy consists of less than 3 fractions.
  • * Planned radiotherapy that does not employ an external beam
  • * Planned participation in a clinical study that prohibits participation in a second, concurrent treatment trial
  • * Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated, or subjects who are compulsorily detained for treatment of either a psychiatric or physical illness.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 99 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Florida,

Kathryn Hitchcock, MD, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Florida

Study Record Dates

2026-12