Clinical trial · Interventional
Communication Training in Promoting Employment Retention Among Cancer Patients
Using Communication Training to Promote Employment Retention Among Cancer Survivors
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Why stopped (as posted): Grant ended/funding unavailable
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This randomized clinical trial studies communication training in promoting employment retention among cancer patients. Communication training may improve patient-employer communication and increase the likelihood that cancer patients will remain employed, reduce patients' time away from work, and increase workplace accommodations that enable patients to balance treatment and work.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific | Adult Solid Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.85 |
Interventions
Interventions (4)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| communication skills training | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| educational intervention | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| quality-of-life assessment | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| questionnaire administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Arm I (DVD)
- description
- Patients receive a DVD containing educational information about patients' legal rights in the workplace and communication skills demonstrated through four scenarios depicting a variety of employer-employee communication challenges for patients, provided by LINC group.
- interventionNames
- Other: educational intervention
- Other: communication skills training
- Other: questionnaire administration
- Other: quality-of-life assessment
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Arm II (control)
- description
- Patients receive information about the LINC group.
- interventionNames
- Other: educational intervention
- Other: questionnaire administration
- Other: quality-of-life assessment
Primary outcomes (3)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 21 Years
- Maximum age
- 64 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with a new, primary diagnosis of a solid tumor * Employed full- or part-time at the time of enrollment * English-speaking * Able to participate in telephone interviews * Able to view a 1-hour DVD * Patients must have a treatment plan that includes chemotherapy and be within 2 weeks of initiating chemotherapy Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with prior cancer except non-melanoma skin cancer
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