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(Cost-)Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Cancer Patients

NCT02138513 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 245

Last updated 2017-09-19

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Summary

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing anxiety, depression and fatigue in cancer patients. As this intervention can be offered in groups, costs are relatively low. In addition, delivering MBCT online might make the intervention more accessible and cost-effectiveness. However, more information is needed about what treatment works best for which patient.

Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate clinical and cost-effectiveness of both individual MBCT online and MBCT offered as a group training compared to TAU .

Study design: The design of the study will be a multi-centre, randomised, superiority trial, comparing MBCT online and MBCT offered as a group training with TAU. Participants in the TAU condition will be randomised to one of the treatment conditions after 3 months. Main assessments will take place at baseline (T0), post-treatment (T1), and 3 (T2) and 9 months after post-treatment (T3).

We expect the MBCT conditions to be superior to TAU in terms of improving mindfulness skills, anxiety and depressive compants, psychological well-being, rumination and fear of cancer recurrence. We also expect the MBCT to result in patients returning to work earlier, have a higher work ability and have lower medical care costs, thereby being more cost-effective than TAU.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

This MBCT protocol consists of 8 weekly sessions of 2,5 hours each and a silent day of 6 hours of meditation practice. Similar to group MBCT, in the online MBCT group, participants will be asked to practice at home for 45 minutes, 6 days a week. They will receive files with meditation and yoga exercises to support this.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anne EM Speckens, MD, PhD · Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2016-07-20
Completion
2017-05-01

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Diseases

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