Psychosocial Support in Treating Women With Recurrent Breast Cancer or Stage I, Stage II, or Stage IV Breast Cancer

NCT00416780 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 350

Last updated 2013-05-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Meeting together with other breast cancer patients to receive psychosocial support and to learn to reduce stress may help patients cope with their diagnosis, have a better quality of life, and live more comfortably.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well psychosocial support works in treating women with recurrent breast cancer or stage I, stage II, or stage IV breast cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

counseling intervention

OTHER

educational intervention

PROCEDURE

psychosocial assessment and care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH
  • Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center at Carnegie Mellon University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Scheier, PhD · Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center at Carnegie Mellon University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Completion
2006-03-31

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