An instructional DVD fall-prevention program for patients with cancer and family caregivers.

Purpose/objectives: Determine the efficacy of a fall-prevention skills training program for patients with cancer and family caregivers.

Design: Randomized, controlled trial with repeated measures and postintervention measure of fall occurrence.

Setting: A comprehensive cancer center in the midwestern United States.

Consent form heterogeneity in cancer trials: the cooperative group and institutional review board gap.

Background: Cooperative group (CG) provided consent forms (CGP-CFs) undergo re-review and revision by local institutional review boards (IRB) before institutional approval. We compared the relative readability and length of IRB-approved consent forms (IRB-CFs) used at seven academic institutions with their corresponding CGP-CFs. We also assessed the variability of these metrics across our institutions.

A DVD program on fall prevention skills training for cancer family caregivers.

This feasibility study tested an instructional DVD program for improving cancer family caregivers' knowledge and preparedness in fall prevention and reducing fall occurrence among the patients they care for at home. DVD program features included training caregivers on safe mobility skills. Family caregivers of cancer patients were surveyed before and after viewing the DVD program on "Moving Safely" in the home.

Bringing skin assessments to life using human patient simulation: an emphasis on cancer prevention and early detection.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with about 1,000,000 people developing the disease each year. The incidence of melanoma has rapidly increased in young white women between the ages of 15-34 over the last three decades. While melanoma accounts for approximately 3% of skin cancers, it causes more than 75% of skin cancer deaths.