Clinical trial NCT04652505: Effect of the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis on the Mental Health and Physical Well-Being of Cancer Patients, the Coping With COVID Study
Official title: Coping With COVID: The Effect of the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis on Mental Well-Being in Cancer Patients Seen at the Psychiatric Oncology Clinic
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: COVID-19 Infection
Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm
Malignant Solid Neoplasm
Lead sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2020-12-03
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Cancer patients who received care at the psychiatric oncology clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic

Brief summary: This study determines how the threat of the coronavirus has affected the mental health and physical well-being of cancer patients seen at the psychiatric oncology clinic, and how they have coped with any related stress. Questionnaires that assess coping strategies and behaviors for decreasing disease transmission may help researchers create recommendations for future public health crises and pandemics.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health crisis affected mental well-being in cancer patients seen at the psychiatric oncology clinic.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine how the COVID-19 public health crisis affected physical well-being and substance use in cancer patients seen at the psychiatric oncology clinic.

II. To determine how patient coping strategies and levels of apathy affected mental and physical health symptoms and substance use during COVID-19 in patients seen at the psychiatric oncology clinic.

III. To determine the association of coping strategies and levels of apathy with proclivity to engage in health behaviors intended to decrease the transmission of the disease during the COVID-19 pandemic in patients seen at the psychiatric oncology clinic.

OUTLINE:

Patients complete 3 questionnaires online over 15 minutes regarding coping strategies that may have been used, mental health and physical well-being in the past month, and if they have been following certain behaviors which the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended during the coronavirus pandemic, such as regular hand washing and social distancing.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Outpatients seen by providers of the psychiatric oncology clinic at least once between November 1, 2019 and February 29, 2020 and at least once between April 10, 2020 and June 10, 2020
* Speaking English as indicated in their medical chart

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who are pregnant as recorded in their medical chart
* Incarcerated
* With a recorded diagnosis of a formal thought disorder
* Unable to consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Patient-reported severity of depression
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Patient-reported severity of anxiety
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Patient-reported severity of distress
timeFrame: Baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Patient-reported physical symptoms
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Substance use
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Patient-reported coping strategy
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Patient-reported levels of apathy
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Patient-reported engagement in the 5 health behaviors endorsed by World Health Organization intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus
timeFrame: Baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: M D Anderson Cancer Center
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
name: Tamara E Lacourt
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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