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Self-Advocacy Serious Game in Advanced Cancer

NCT03339765 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2023-07-05

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Summary

Self-advocacy, defined as the ability of a patient to get her needs and priorities met in the face of a challenge, is an essential skill but not all women with advanced cancer are able to do it. We want to instruct women with advanced cancer who have low self-advocacy to self-advocate for their health and well-being. We will test a new "serious game" or video program that teaches self-advocacy skills through interactive, situation-based activities. The goal of the Strong Together serious game is to engage participants in challenges commonly experienced by women with advanced cancer, offer them choices to self-advocate or not, and directly show them the health and social benefits of self-advocating and the negative consequences of not self-advocating. Through engaging in the Strong Together program, participants vicariously learn the essential skills of self-advocacy, understand the downstream effects of using or not using these skills, and learn distinct behaviors that they can then use to address their own challenges.

Conditions

  • Ovarian Cancer Stage III
  • Ovarian Cancer Stage IV
  • Breast Cancer Stage IV
  • Cervical Cancer Stage IIIB
  • Cervical Cancer Stage IVA
  • Cervical Cancer Stage IVB
  • Endometrial Cancer Stage III
  • Endometrial Cancer Stage IV
  • Vulvar Cancer, Stage III
  • Vulvar Cancer, Stage IV
  • Vaginal Cancer Stage III
  • Vaginal Cancer Stage IVA
  • Vaginal Cancer Stage IVB

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Strong Together serious game

The Strong Together serious game program is an interactive, immersive education program in which participants quickly learn the behaviors of self-advocacy and the potential consequences of self-advocating or not. Participants will receive weekly game sessions to play at home for three months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Teresa H Thomas, PhD, RN · University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-13
Primary Completion
2021-03-18
Completion
2021-03-18

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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