Clinical trial NCT05335967: Effectiveness Evaluation of a Self-management Program for Prostate Cancer Survivors
Official title: Development and Effectiveness Evaluation of a Self-management Program for Prostate Cancer Survivors
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Prostatic Neoplasms
Self-Management
Keywords: Prostate cancer
Self-Management
Social participation
Resilience
Rear of cancer recurrence
Self-efficacy
Demoralization
Lead sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
name: National Science and Technology Council
First posted: 2022-04-20
Enrollment: 85
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Objectives: This project aims to develop a self-management program for survivors with prostate cancer experiencing urinary incontinence following radical prostatectomy and determine its effectiveness.

Methods: The investigators will develop a self-management program and conduct a study on survivors with prostate cancer experiencing urinary incontinence following radical prostatectomy. And the investigators will test the effectiveness of the self-management program. After completing a pretest, participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental or control group. The self-management group will receive the self-management program for 12 weeks, whereas the information group will receive an information package on a healthy diet. Posttests will be administered 12 and 16 weeks after the pretest. The study variables will include physical symptoms and bothers, cancer-related self-efficacy, social participation, demoralization, and resilience.

Detailed description: Objectives: This project aims to develop a self-management program for survivors with prostate cancer experiencing urinary incontinence following radical prostatectomy and determine its effectiveness.

Methods: The investigators will develop a self-management program and conduct a study on survivors with prostate cancer experiencing urinary incontinence following radical prostatectomy. And the investigators will test the effectiveness of the self-management program. After completing a pretest, participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental or control group. The self-management group will receive the self-management program for 12 weeks, whereas the information group will receive an information package on a healthy diet. The self-management program is included a self-management application, a self-management manual, and professional support. The information package consists of a manual on a healthy diet and a multimedia film on a healthy diet. Posttests will be administered 12 and 16 weeks after the pretest. The study variables will include physical symptoms and bothers, cancer-related self-efficacy, social participation, demoralization, and resilience. The statistical analyses will consist of independent sample t-tests, Chi-squire, and generalized estimating equation analysis.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Prostate cancer survivors will include if they fit the following:

* Received radical prostatectomy and suffering from urinary incontinence for at least one week
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group 0-1 point, able to walk entirely independently
* Have a smartphone or a tablet with a wireless network
* Their intimate partner or one of the family members willing to learn together
* Agreed to participate in the study and completed the informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

Prostate cancer survivors will be excluded if they had one or more of the following:

* A request, with the consideration of family members, that the medical team not tell the patient about the diagnosis or condition of the disease
* A history of psychiatric illness, such as dementia, depression; schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder
* Suffer from other types of cancer and actively undergoing treatment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cancer related self-efficacy
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Cancer related self-efficacy
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
measure: Cancer related self-efficacy
timeFrame: 16 weeks after the pretest
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Urinary symptoms and bothers
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Urinary symptoms and bothers
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
measure: Urinary symptoms and bothers
timeFrame: 16 weeks after the pretest
measure: Social participation
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Social participation
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
measure: Social participation
timeFrame: 16 weeks after the pretest
measure: Demoralization
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demoralization
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
measure: Demoralization
timeFrame: 16 weeks after the pretest
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: 16 weeks after the pretest
Other outcomes:
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 1
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 2
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 3
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 4
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 5
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 6
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 7
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 8
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 9
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 10
timeFrame: Pre-test
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 11
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
measure: Demographic characteristic and disease information list 12
timeFrame: 16 weeks after the pretest
measure: Satisfaction and evaluation of self-management intervention
timeFrame: 12 weeks after the pretest
Locations:
city: Keelung
country: Taiwan
facility: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung
city: Taoyuan
country: Taiwan
facility: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou
Study officials:
affiliation: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.
name: Ching-Hui Chien, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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