Customized Neuro-Imaging Referenced Symptom Video for the Reduction of Patient and Caregiver Anxiety Around Radiation Treatment for Brain Tumors

Summary

This trial studies whether a customized video intervention can help to reduce anxiety in brain cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment and their caregivers. A customized neuro-imaging referenced symptom video that describes symptoms and side effects specific to the patients' tumor may result in an early and sustained reduction in anxiety and distress during and after radiation treatment, thereby improving quality of life.

Interventions

• Educational Intervention · OTHER

  Receive standard of care verbal and written education materials

• Questionnaire Administration · OTHER

  Ancillary studies

• Survey Administration · OTHER

  Complete optional survey

• Video · OTHER

  Watch NIRS video

Published eligibility criteria

Verbatim from the registry. Only the site can decide how these apply to a specific patient.

Inclusion Criteria:

* PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Adult patients with newly diagnosed glioma (World Health Organization \[WHO\] grade 2-4) who are planned for a 6-week course of radiotherapy after surgery
* PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Able to complete questionnaires in English
* PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Has a post-operative diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain with and without contrast acquired within 4 weeks of the start of radiotherapy
* CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Adult caregiver (\>= 18 years) who is accompanying an eligible patient consented to the study
* CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: The patient who the caregiver is accompanying is consented for participation on the study
* CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Able and willing to complete questionnaires in English

Exclusion Criteria:

* PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Significant cognitive or psychiatric symptoms that prevent the ability to complete the questionnaires as determined by the assessing staff in the pre-intervention evaluation
* PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Poor performance status (Karnofsky performance status \[KPS\] \< 60) that prevent the ability to complete the questionnaires
* CAREGIVER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Significant cognitive or psychiatric symptoms that prevent the ability to complete the questionnaires as determined by the assessing staff in the pre-intervention evaluation

Sites (1)

• M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas · RECRUITING