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A Patient-Controlled Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Cancer Symptoms

NCT00946803 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 86

Last updated 2014-04-30

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Summary

Patients receiving treatment for advanced cancer often experience co-occuring pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance that are not relieved with medications. Brief cognitive-behavioral coping strategies such as relaxation or imagery have been shown to be useful for these symptoms individually and may be effective for the cluster of co-occuring pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance. Because single cognitive-behavioral strategies don't work equally well for all persons, providing training in multiple cognitive-behavioral strategies is necessary. However, oncology nurses report having insufficient time and are often not available to deliver the interventions exactly when patients experience symptom exacerbation. This application proposes a patient-controlled cognitive-behavioral (PC-CB) intervention, using an MP3 player to deliver recorded cognitive-behavioral strategies. The PC-CB intervention would allow patients to select from a variety of cognitive-behavioral strategies based on their personal preferences, and facilitate self-administration of those strategies at whatever time and place the symptoms occur, without increasing burden on nursing staff. Primary aims are (1) to explore acceptability and patterns of use of the recorded cognitive-behavioral strategies and (2) to pilot test efficacy of the PC-CB intervention compared to a waitlist control.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Patient-Controlled Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention

Selection of 12 recorded imagery- and non imagery-based cognitive-behavioral coping strategies provided on an MP3 player to be used at least once per day or more frequently, as needed for pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kristine Kwekkeboom, PhD · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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