Project Connect: Enhancing Connections During Metastatic Breast Cancer (PCO)

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center1 site in 1 country33 target enrollmentJune 4, 2015

ConditionsBreast Neoplasms

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Breast Neoplasms
Sponsor: Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Enrollment: 33
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Change of general and cancer-related psychological status
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 5 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

This randomized comparative effectiveness trial examines the potential psychosocial and physical health-related benefits of sharing personal websites with other women with breast cancer, as well as with family and friends (PCO PLUS condition) versus sharing with family and friends only (PCO condition) in a sample of women with metastatic breast cancer.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

June 4, 2015

End Date

June 17, 2019

Last Updated

5 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

Female

Investigators

Sponsor

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Responsible Party

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•women at least 18 years of age;
•first diagnosis of Stage IV breast cancer or a recurrent diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, any interval since diagnosis;
•ability to complete the intervention and assessments in English; and
•willingness to attend in-person PCO workshop;

Exclusion Criteria

•male (because men constitute less than 1% of breast cancer patients, numbers would not be sufficient for reliable analyses);
•local (i.e., same breast, surgical scar, chest wall) or regional (i.e., lymph nodes) recurrent disease; and
•use of a personal website to post cancer-relevant material in the past six months