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Self-Management Intervention for Breathlessness in Lung Cancer

NCT01585883 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2019-05-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the suitability and practicality of a coaching and support intervention in helping patients to use daily strategies for managing breathlessness. Also, the investigators will try to understand how useful it is in helping patients to reduce intensity of breathlessness and its impact their quality of life.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-management Intervention

Individual, face-to-face 7-session self-management intervention delivered by a specialist oncology nurse/clinical case manager as a home-based approach using a manual for each session. The intervention is delivered through scheduled home visits (7 sessions about one-hour in length), telephone coaching (2 sessions/week to reinforce use of strategies and for symptom monitoring: 15 minutes), and nurse moderated online peer chat or chat that is self-initiated at other times (7 weekly sessions about one hour in length).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Doris Howell, RN PhD · Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-11-30
Primary Completion
2015-12-30
Completion
2015-12-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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