Clinical trial NCT06074445: Caring for the Sexual Health and Wellbeing of Cancer Survivors and Their Intimate Partners: An Anonymous Survey
Official title: An Anonymous Survey Investigating Care for the Sexual Health of Cancer Survivors and Their Intimate Partners, as Provided by the United Kingdom Hospital Cancer Team
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Cancer
Keywords: Cancer Survivors
Neoplasms
Oncology
Sexual Health
Sexual Dysfunction, physiological
Sexual Dysfunctions, psychological
Sexuality
Barrier
Facilitator
Professional-Patient Relations
Communication
Lead sponsor: Bournemouth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute for Health Research, Applied Research Collaboration, Wessex
name: Fortuneswell Cancer Trust
name: Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
First posted: 2023-10-10
Enrollment: 169
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: People with cancer or the partners of people with cancer

Brief summary: The aim of this survey study is to provide broad information as reported by cancer survivors and their intimate partners about both their sexual health and their experiences of care from the United Kingdom hospital cancer team, including their perspectives on factors that may hinder or help care. This information will be analysed and used to inform the questions asked in a separate, subsequent, qualitative study.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Cancer survivors diagnosed with any type of cancer at age 18 years or over
2. A partner of someone diagnosed with any type of cancer at age 18 years or over
3. Cancer diagnosis must be no more than 10 years ago
4. Cancer survivors or their partners who experienced treatment and follow up care in the United Kingdom

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer below the age of 18 years
2. Partners of cancer survivors who were diagnosed with cancer below the age of 18 years
3. Cancer diagnosis was more than 10 years ago
4. Cancer survivors/partners of survivors where the cancer treatment and follow up was not in the United Kingdom
5. Previous completion of the survey

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of participants who had a sexual health discussion(s) with the hospital cancer team at any point during cancer care
timeFrame: Up to 10 years prior to completing survey (discussion(s) about sexual health could have occurred at any point during cancer care)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of participants with specific levels of impact on their sex lives by cancer and its treatments
timeFrame: From each individual participants' cancer diagnosis/cancer treatment until the date that they completed the survey
measure: Survey questionnaire to measure the nature and prevalence of care for sexual health that cancer survivors and their intimate partners self-report experiencing from the UK hospital cancer team.
timeFrame: Participants can report care received from prior to their cancer treatment through to their follow-up care (last 10 years only)
measure: Survey questionnaire to measure the nature and prevalence of the perceived barriers to and facilitators for care for sexual health as received by cancer survivors and their intimate partners when provided by the UK hospital cancer team.
timeFrame: Participants can report their perceptions from diagnosis through to their follow-up care (last 10 years only)
measure: Survey questionnaire to measure to what extent groups of cancer survivors and their intimate partners with differing characteristics receive differing care for their sexual health from the UK hospital cancer team.
timeFrame: Participants diagnosed with cancer in the previous 10 years.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bournemouth
country: United Kingdom
facility: Bournemouth University
state: Dorset
Study officials:
affiliation: Bournemouth University
name: Sam Porter, PhD, RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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