Clinical trial · Interventional
Digital Education in Colorectal Cancer Patients
Guiding Anxiety Reduction, Disease Understanding and Insightful Decision-Making Through Digital Education in Colorectal Cancer Patients, A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the impact of integrating video- based education in colorectal cancer surgery, with a specific focus on patient's perspective. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does addition of video-based patient education material lower patient's anxiety around colorectal cancer surgery? Does it increase patient's understanding of their diagnosis? Does it enhance patient's sense of shared decision-making? Researchers will compare an addition of video-based education to a standard surgical consultation to see if video improves patient's experience with colorectal cancer surgery. Participants will be randomized at the time of referral. Intervention group will view the video prior to the surgical consultation. They will complete the survey at the end of the surgical consultation.
Conditions
Conditions (4)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorectal Cancer | Malignant Colorectal Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
| Patient | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Patient Engagement | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Patient Satisfaction | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video platform | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- OTHER
- label
- Intervention
- description
- Obtaining access to the video platform and surgical consultation
- interventionNames
- Other: Video platform
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- description
- Surgical consultation only, with an option to gain access to videos upon completion of the outcome survey
Primary outcomes (4)
- measure
- Anxiety related to colorectal cancer surgery
- timeFrame
- Baseline
- description
- Assessed using the Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer Patients-Revised (QSC-R10), a 10-item, 5-point Likert scale. Scores range from 0 to 50, with higher scores indicating greater cancer-related distress.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (≥18 years of age). * Biopsy-proven adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum. * Evaluated for surgical resection at the University Health Network (UHN). * Undergoing elective, curative-intent: Right hemicolectomy, Left hemicolectomy, Sigmoid resection, Low anterior resection, Abdominoperineal resection Exclusion Criteria: * Age \<18 years. * Emergency surgery. * Palliative surgery.
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