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Internet-based Support in Cancer Rehabilitation

NCT00961610 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 794

Last updated 2009-08-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This 2-arm randomized trial assessed the incremental effect of providing a lecture on Internet use followed by participation in an Internet-based peer support group following a week-long rehabilitation program, over and above any possible general effect of participation in the rehabilitation program.

Primary outcome measures are adjustment to cancer and mood disturbance.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Internet peer-support group

The Internet peer-support groups provided a self-guided space for communication, including an Internet discussion forum, a live chat room and a personal message system. No therapeutic content or information services were offered within the groups. All Internet groups were run in a browser-based software platform with access through the website of the Danish Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.dk). All discussions were protected by a password and communication was encrypted. The Internet groups in this study were all closed peer-support groups, accessible only by an invitation received by e-mail after registration for the study. The groups were open to access 24 h a day for 13 months from their individual starting date.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • TrygFonden, Denmark

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • IMK Almene Fond

    collaborator OTHER

  • Danish Cancer Society

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christoffer Johansen, MD, PhD, DrMedSci · Department of Psychosocial Cancer Research

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-04-30
Primary Completion
2006-12-31
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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