Adapting the Tumor Board Model for Mental Illness and Cancer

Description

This study examines the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual tumor board for cancer and mental illness for patients with serious mental illness and a new cancer diagnosis. The study also examines the impact on patient care, psychiatric symptoms, and clinician self-efficacy in managing this population.

Conditions

Cancer, Severe Major Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer

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Study overview

This study examines the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual tumor board for cancer and mental illness for patients with serious mental illness and a new cancer diagnosis. The study also examines the impact on patient care, psychiatric symptoms, and clinician self-efficacy in managing this population.

Adapting the Tumor Board Model for Mental Illness and Cancer: A Single Arm Pilot Trial

Adapting the Tumor Board Model for Mental Illness and Cancer

Condition
Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Danvers

Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care, Danvers, Massachusetts, United States, 01923

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

  • 1. Age ≥ 18 years old
  • 2. Verbal fluency in English
  • 3. SMI (schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder with either prior psychiatric hospitalization, history of suicide attempt/suicidal ideation, Medicaid insurance, and/or comorbid alcohol or opioid use disorder) confirmed by diagnostic evaluation of study psychiatrist
  • 4. New invasive stage I-IV breast, lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or head and neck cancer (highly suspected or confirmed according to documentation by the oncologist or pathology)
  • 5. Oncology consultation at or referral to a MGH Danvers within the past 8 weeks
  • 1. Have cognitive impairment severe enough to interfere with completing brief study assessments or providing informed consent and does not have a guardian who can provide consent
  • 2. Recurrence of same cancer type
  • 3. Do not have verbal fluency in English

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Massachusetts General Hospital,

Study Record Dates

2024-05-31