Nurse-led Proactive Telephone Follow-up With Patients After Completion of Primary Cancer Treatment

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Proactive nurse-led telephone follow-up: An intervention nurse call the patients regularly with predetermined intervals and give support

Study summary

The goal of this randomized study is to test and evaluate nurse-led telephone follow-up intervention in patients primarily curatively treated for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.

The main question aims to answer:

Does this nurse-led telephone follow-up improve patients' quality of life? Participants in both groups will be asked to fill in questionnaires regularly. The intervention group will get a telephone follow-up at predetermined intervals, while the control group will get the care as usual.The investigators will compare intervention and control groups to see if predetermined regular nurse-led telephone follow-up improves quality of life.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Patients' reported Quality of life — Baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months from inclusion
  Measured by The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) The questionnaire consists of 30 items. The QLQ-C30 is composed of both multi-item scales and single-items measures and includes five functional scales, three symptom scales, a global health status /QoL(quality of life) scale, and six single items. Twenty-eight items are answered on a four-point Likert scale with response option labeled "Nor at all", "A little", "Quite a bit" and "Very Much". The last two questions have a seven point scale, ranging from 1 ("Very Poor") to seven ("Excellent"). Higher score for a functional scale represents a high/healthy level of functioning, a high score for the global health status represents a high QoL but a high score for a symptom scale/item represents a high level of symptomatology/problems. The minimum in values is 0, and maximum in values is 100.

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