Survivorship Booklets With or Without Individual Telephone Sessions in Increasing Knowledge About the Impact of Breast Cancer in African American and Latina Breast Cancer Survivors

Summary

RATIONALE: Telephone sessions and survivorship booklets may increase knowledge about the psychological and physical impact of breast cancer and increase awareness of available resources. It is not yet known whether survivorship booklets are more effective when given alone or together with individual telephone sessions in informing breast cancer survivors.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying individual telephone sessions given together with survivorship booklets compared with survivorship booklets alone to see how well they work in increasing knowledge about the impact of breast cancer in African American and Latina breast cancer survivors.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Cancer Survivor
• Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

telephone-based intervention

Participants receive a "Survivorship Kit" and telephone sessions based upon responses to initial survey

OTHER

counseling intervention

Participants receive a "Survivorship Kit" and telephone sessions based upon responses to initial survey

OTHER

educational intervention

Participants receive a "Survivorship Kit" alone or in combination with telephone sessions based upon responses to initial survey

OTHER

questionnaire administration

Baseline and 9 months after enrollment and intervention

PROCEDURE

psychosocial assessment and care

Participants receive a "Survivorship Kit" alone or in combination with telephone sessions based upon responses to initial survey

PROCEDURE

quality-of-life assessment

Baseline and 9 months after enrollment and intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  collaborator NIH

• City of Hope Medical Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Kimlin Ashing-Giwa, PhD · City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2006-10-31

Primary Completion

2010-06-30

Completion

2010-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations