Video Education for Adults Facing Colorectal Cancer Surgery
Tests whether video education before surgery consultation eases anxiety in colorectal cancer patients.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Health Network, Toronto
- Where
- Toronto, CanadaSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Digital Education in Colorectal Cancer Patients
- Status
- Enrolling by invitation
- People taking part
- 100 people, planned
- Started
- 10 Mar 2026
- Expected to end
- Oct 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Video platform
- Record updated
- 7 July 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with proven colon or rectal cancer who are being assessed for planned surgery at University Health Network (UHN). It tests whether a video helps before the surgery consultation.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Colon or rectal cancer (adenocarcinoma) proven by biopsy, going to planned surgery meant to remove all of the disease. Surgery types: right hemicolectomy, left hemicolectomy, sigmoid resection, low anterior resection, abdominoperineal resection.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Under 18 years of age
- Emergency surgery
- Palliative surgery
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- 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
Who cannot take part
- Emergency surgery
- Palliative surgery
- Age <18 years
Where in Canada
- Toronto General HospitalToronto, CanadaNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
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:
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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.
The 2 groups in the trial
- InterventionOther group
Obtaining access to the video platform and surgical consultation
Treatment: Video platform
- ControlNo study treatment, for comparison
Surgical consultation only, with an option to gain access to videos upon completion of the outcome survey
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Guiding Anxiety Reduction, Disease Understanding and Insightful Decision-Making Through Digital Education in Colorectal Cancer Patients, A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Plain-language title
- Video Education for Adults Facing Colorectal Cancer SurgeryGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 7 July 2026