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Online and Narrative Interventions for Advanced Cancer Patients

NCT00948207 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 117

Last updated 2019-11-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators will test whether narrative life review and web-based social networking for middle aged adults with advanced cancer will improve:

1. existential well being (and reduce psychological distress)
2. generativity and relationship quality, thereby mediating the intervention effects

The investigators will also conduct exploratory process analyses of each participant's social network.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

My Living Story

Components include: 1\. Life Review Interview by phone (questions based on Chochinov, 2002 dignity enhancing interview); 2\) Edited transcript is delivered in a word format on...; 3\) miLivingStory, a personal social network, where participants can manage content, design and layer; invite and manage their fiends and family. 4\) miStory, a life review education website and portal to websites for: cancer information, databases to "do your own research," social support, interactive planning tools, and a page to add their own weblinks.

BEHAVIORAL

My Own Resources

miOwnResources is a personalized, password-protected web portal to high quality websites that provide cancer information, cancer research databases for "do your own research," social support, and interactive planning tools. miOwnResources also has a page for participants to add their own weblinks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Margaret (Meg) E Wise, PhD · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-28
Primary Completion
2011-02-28
Completion
2011-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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