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

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Novel Intervention to Reduce Patient and Caregiver Anxiety Around Radiation Treatment for Brain Tumors With a Customized Neuro-Imaging Referenced Symptom Video

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Full eligibility criteria
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

About the study

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.

What is being tested

Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Participants: 117 · Started: Jun 5, 2019

Contact the study team

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT04479696

Locations in the U.S.

TexasM D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

Conditions

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.