Culturally Based Brief Expressive Writing Intervention for the Improvement of Health in Chinese Immigrant Stage 0-III Breast Cancer Survivors, Writing to Heal Study
NCT04754412 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 256
Last updated 2026-01-20
Summary
This clinical trial studies the effect of a culturally based brief expressive writing intervention in improving the health of Chinese immigrant stage 0-III breast cancer survivors. Culturally based brief expressive writing interventions may help researchers learn more about the experiences of Chinese immigrant breast cancer survivors and how writing about their experiences may affect their health.
Conditions
- Anatomic Stage 0 Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IA Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IB Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IIIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IIIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Anatomic Stage IIIC Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage 0 Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IA Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IB Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IIIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IIIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8
- Prognostic Stage IIIC Breast Cancer AJCC v8
Interventions
- OTHER
-
Behavioral, Psychological or Informational Intervention
Write about stress and coping, emotional disclosure, and benefit finding
- OTHER
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Behavioral, Psychological or Informational Intervention
Write about positive thoughts and feelings regarding their breast cancer experience
- OTHER
-
Best Practice
Write about facts regarding their cancer diagnosis and treatment
- OTHER
-
Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
- OTHER
-
Questionnaire Administration
Ancillary studies
Sponsors & Collaborators
-
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
collaborator NIH -
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
lead OTHER
Principal Investigators
-
Qian Lu · M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Study Design
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE_CARE
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Model
- PARALLEL
Eligibility
- Min Age
- 18 Years
- Sex
- FEMALE
- Healthy Volunteers
- No
Timeline & Regulatory
- Start
- 2021-07-23
- Primary Completion
- 2026-04-01
- Completion
- 2026-04-01
Countries
- United States
Study Locations
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