Clinical trial NCT02541266: Imaging in Clinical Trials - a Questionnaire Study to Assess Impact of Imaging Regimes on Patient Participation
Official title: Imaging in Clinical Trials - a Questionnaire Study to Assess Impact of Imaging Regimes on Patient Participation
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Cancer
Keywords: Imaging
Questionnaire
Lead sponsor: Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom
name: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
First posted: 2015-09-04
Enrollment: 207
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Group 1: Patients recruited to studies with imaging Group 2: Patients who have previously participated in studies with imaging Group 3: Patients attending for scans as part of their clinical pathway

Brief summary: This research is aimed at finding out what may influence the decision of patients to participate in trials involving imaging so that the investigators may improve our future studies so they are more patient focused and acceptable in regards to scan schedules.

Detailed description: This is a questionnaire study aimed at gaining a greater understanding of the patient perspective on undertaking imaging procedures, MRI and PET/CT, for research purposes. The study is to evaluate the patient opinion and perceptions of the burden of imaging associated with research. We will look at different scanning procedures of varying duration, intensity, frequency and scheduling; this will enable us to have a better understand of the factors that influence participation in research and thus help us develop protocols that are more patient focused and acceptable.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria

* Being treated at The Royal Marsden Hospital
* Over the age of 18
* Having imaging (MRI or PET/CT) as part of research or clinical care.
* Group 1

  * Currently enrolled in a research project that involves imaging (either MRI or PET/CT)
* Group 2

  * Previously enrolled in a research project that involved imaging (either MRI or PET/CT), where the patients involvement in the research project has now ended.
* Group 3

  * Patients attending the MRI or PET/CT departments for imaging as part of their standard clinical care.

Exclusion Criteria -

* Inability to complete the questionnaire.
* Previously completed questionnaire.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Factors that affect patient participation in imaging research
timeFrame: Duration of Study - 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Factors affecting participation in the different patient categories
timeFrame: Duration of Study - 1 year
measure: Effect of current participation in a study on the perceived acceptability of imaging burden
timeFrame: Duration of Study - 1 year
measure: Do opinions change after undergoing imaging procedures
timeFrame: Duration of Study - 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sutton
country: United Kingdom
facility: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
state: Surrey
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