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Online Individual Intervention Program to Make Sense of People's Experiences After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

NCT05963412 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 44

Last updated 2024-09-23

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Summary

The unexpected changes caused by the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer can lead individuals to question their beliefs, life meanings, and goals, prompting a search for meaning. According to Park and Folkman's Meaning-Making Model, the process of meaning making functions as a coping mechanism. It helps individuals adapt challenging experiences into their lives, ultimately assisting in their psychological adjustment to stressful situations. Based on this theoretical model, principles from meaning therapy literature reviews, interviews with breast cancer patients, and expert consultation, an 8-week online individual psychological intervention was developed. It was aimed at facilitating the finding of new meanings in the experience of breast cancer and promoting psychological well-being. It includes psycho-educational, cognitive, existential, and behavioral components explicitly focusing on the meaning-making process. This intervention is called the Meaning Centered Coping Program (MCCP). The main purpose of this study was to test whether the MCCP was an effective intervention program for women diagnosed with breast cancer. For this purpose, the study sample consisted of women with stage I, II, and III breast cancer. Then, participants were randomly assigned to the MCCP group and the waitlist control group. A number of reliable and valid measurement tools were used to compare the MCCP group with the waitlist control group and to examine the effect of the program. Compared with the control group, significant improvements were expected in the level of meaning in life, post-traumatic growth, situational meanings, and psychological well-being in the MCCP group.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Meaning Centered Coping Program

Meaning Centered Coping Program is a psychological intervention program developed for women diagnosed with breast cancer, based on the Meaning Making Model (Park, 2010; Park and Folkman, 1997) and Wong's (2010) principles of Meaning Therapy. Each weekly session had specific topics. These are: Session 1: Guiding patients to tell the story of their breast cancer and psycho-education; Session 2: Encouraging patients to talk about the effects of breast cancer on their lives and learning to accept their difficult emotions; Session 3: Focusing on cognition through the meaning attributed to breast cancer; Session 4: Learning to take alternative perspectives and defusing their negative thoughts; Session 5: Exploring personal strengths; Session 6: İdentifying important life values and moving toward value-based actions; Session 7: Finding meaning in breast cancer and life; Session 8: Focusing on Future plans and hopes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Dokuz Eylul University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Selva Ülbe · Dokuz Eylul University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-30
Primary Completion
2022-10-30
Completion
2022-12-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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