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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 28 April 2013
Main ID:  NTR2568
Date of registration: 12/10/2010
Primary sponsor: University of Tilburg
Public title: Sexual functioning and the quality of sexual life in patients with colorectal cancer and their partners.
Scientific title: Sexual functioning and the quality of sexual life in patients with colorectal cancer and their partners. -
Date of first enrolment: 15/3/2010
Target sample size: 600
Recruitment status: pending
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=2568
Study type:  observational
Study design:  Randomised: No; Masking: [default]; Control: [default]; Group: Parallel; Type: Single arm  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: J.  Vries, de
Address:  Postbus 90153, Warandelaan 2 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)13 4662705
Email: j.devries@uvt.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: M.J.  Traa
Address:  Postbus 90153, Warandelaan 2 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)13 4664129
Email: m.j.traa@uvt.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients who are diagnosed with colorectal cancer in one of the participating centra, and their partners are asked to participate in this study prior to treatment;

2. Patients have to be between 18 and 75 years old.

Exclusion criteria: 1. Disease recurrence at baseline or metastases;

2. Poor expression in the Dutch language;

3. Dementia;

4. History of psychiatric illness.


Age minimum:
Age maximum:
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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Colorectal cancer, Quality of life, Sexual dysfunction

Intervention(s)
Patients will receive care as usual. Participants and their partners will complete several questionnaires (e.g., sexual functioning, depressive symptoms, quality of life, personality) before treatment (T0), 6 weeks (T1), 3 months (T2), 6 months (T3), and 12 months (T4) after treatment.
Primary Outcome(s)
The objectives of this study will be to examine:

1. The incidence of sexual problems and the extent patients with colorectal cancer are bothered by these problems across time;

2. The effect of different treatment options on sexual functioning;

3. The association between sexual problems and quality of life;

4. The determinants of sexual problems and quality of sexual life adopting the biopsychosocial approach of patients with colorectal cancer who have been treated with surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy, and more specifically to the role of personality and partner factors and sexual functioning/quality of sexual life.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
NL32121.008.10
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Dutch Cancer Society
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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