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Integrating Palliative Care Into Self-Management of Breast Cancer

NCT02148575 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 109

Last updated 2017-04-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test a psycho-educational intervention, Managing Cancer Care: A Personal Guide (MCC), that is intended to improve patients' knowledge of palliative care and to facilitate its timely integration into self-management of their breast cancer. The MCC will be tested with patients with Stage I-IV breast cancer at baseline, one, and three months following enrollment. The intervention group will receive the MCC, and the attention-control group will receive a symptom management toolkit. Participants' family caregivers will also be enrolled to provide information on patients' self-management. Investigators hypothesize that users of MCC, as compared to attention-control participants, will demonstrate improved knowledge, feelings, and behaviors related to self-management of their cancer care. This innovative research can help to establish palliative care as a mainstay of self-management interventions that target serious illnesses.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-Management Group

BEHAVIORAL

Symptom Management Group

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yale University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dena Schulman-Green, PhD · Principal Investigator

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-30
Primary Completion
2016-04-30
Completion
2017-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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