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.
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
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
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lead sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator