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Expressive Writing and Adjustment to Metastatic Breast Cancer

NCT00624156 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2015-10-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We are doing this study to see if writing about life experiences helps women adjust to breast cancer that has spread. We will compare two groups. One group will write about their breast cancer experience. The other will write about their daily activities. What we learn from this study may help us to find new ways to help women cope with breast cancer that has spread.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Writing Intervention

Participants in the emotional disclosure condition will be instructed to write continuously for 20 minutes about their deepest thoughts and feelings regarding their cancer experience.

BEHAVIORAL

Writing Intervention

Participants assigned to the control condition will be instructed to describe in a detailed, nonemotional manner their daily activities. The 20-minute writing task will be introduced as a time management intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine DuHamel, PhD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2012-01-31
Completion
2012-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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