Maarten van Egmond

96 Chapter 5 Table 1. Continued Study Design Objective Participants Intervention N (male/ female) Characteristics I: n [age (SD)] C: n [age (SD)] Treatment ONCOLOGICAL SURGERY Van den Brink 2007 Prospective controlled trial Effectiveness of telemedicine 163 (118/ 45) Patients after surgery for head and neck cancer I: 35 [59 (38-75)] c C: 128 [61 (29-84)] c Electronic health informa- tion support Coleman 2005 Multisite, two- group exper- imental study with repeated measures Effectiveness of a tele- phone-based support inter- vention 106 (0/106) Patients after breast cancer I: 54 (age not specified) C: 52 (age not specified) Telephone social support and education Eakin 2011 RCT Effectiveness of a tele- phone-based exercise inter- vention 143 (0/ 143) Patients after breast cancer I: 73 [51.7 (9.0)] C: 70 [54.1 (8.7)] Telephone calls Hawkes 2013 A two-armed prospective RCT Effectiveness of a tele- phone-based intervention 410 (221/189) Patients after colorectal cancer I: 205 [64.9 (10.8)] C: 205 [67.8 ( 9.2)] Telephone-de- livered health care sessions