Customized Neuro-Imaging Referenced Symptom Video for the Reduction of Patient and Caregiver Anxiety Around Radiation Treatment for Brain Tumors

Description

This trial studies whether a customized video intervention can help to reduce anxiety in brain cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment and their caregivers. A customized neuro-imaging referenced symptom video that describes symptoms and side effects specific to the patients' tumor may result in an early and sustained reduction in anxiety and distress during and after radiation treatment, thereby improving quality of life.

Conditions

Glioblastoma, WHO Grade II Glioma, WHO Grade III Glioma

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Study overview

This trial studies whether a customized video intervention can help to reduce anxiety in brain cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment and their caregivers. A customized neuro-imaging referenced symptom video that describes symptoms and side effects specific to the patients' tumor may result in an early and sustained reduction in anxiety and distress during and after radiation treatment, thereby improving quality of life.

Novel Intervention to Reduce Patient and Caregiver Anxiety Around Radiation Treatment for Brain Tumors With a Customized Neuro-Imaging Referenced Symptom Video

Customized Neuro-Imaging Referenced Symptom Video for the Reduction of Patient and Caregiver Anxiety Around Radiation Treatment for Brain Tumors

Condition
Glioblastoma
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Houston

M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

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

  • * PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Adult patients with newly diagnosed glioma (World Health Organization \[WHO\] grade 2-4) who are planned for a 6-week course of radiotherapy after surgery
  • * PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Able to complete questionnaires in English
  • * PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Has a post-operative diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain with and without contrast acquired within 4 weeks of the start of radiotherapy
  • * CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Adult caregiver (\>= 18 years) who is accompanying an eligible patient consented to the study
  • * CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: The patient who the caregiver is accompanying is consented for participation on the study
  • * CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Able and willing to complete questionnaires in English
  • * PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Significant cognitive or psychiatric symptoms that prevent the ability to complete the questionnaires as determined by the assessing staff in the pre-intervention evaluation
  • * PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Poor performance status (Karnofsky performance status \[KPS\] \< 60) that prevent the ability to complete the questionnaires
  • * CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Significant cognitive or psychiatric symptoms that prevent the ability to complete the questionnaires as determined by the assessing staff in the pre-intervention evaluation

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,

Caroline Chung, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2027-02-02