The BREATH study: Online self-management to facilitate adjustment after curative breast cancer.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- breast cancer, mamma carcinoma, borstkanker, Internet, web-based intervention, self-management
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28971
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 170
Inclusion Criteria
1. Histologically proven malignancy of the breast;
2. Breast cancer is treated with curative intent surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy;
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients treated only with surgery;
2. Patients with metastatic breast carcinoma;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Psychological distress (SCL-90 ; Arrindell, 2003) and empowerment (Cancer Empowerment Questionnaire; Van den Berg, 2010).<br><br /><br /><br>1. Arrindell WA, Ettema JHM. SCL-90: Handleiding bij een multidimensionele psychopathologie-indicator [SCL-90: Manual for a multifaceted measure of psychopathology]. Lisse, Swets & Zeitlinger, 2003;<br /><br>2. Van den Berg SW, Gielissen M, Prins JP. Validation of an empowerment questionnaire in breast cancer survivors. Meeting abstract 12th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, May 2010.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Quality of life generally (EORTC QLQ C30) and specifically for breast cancer patients (BR23);<br /><br>2. Anxiety and depression (HADS);<br /><br>3. Remoralization (RS);<br /><br>4. Perceived control (Mastery-scale);<br /><br>5. Positive adjustment (PAQ);<br /><br>6. Personality (BFI);<br /><br>7. Coping (Cope);<br /><br>8. Impact of events (IES);<br /><br>9. Illness cognitions (ICQ);<br /><br>10. Fear of cancer recurrence (CWS);<br /><br>11. Openness to discuss cancer (ODHCF);<br /><br>12. Self-efficacly (SE-28);<br /><br>13. Fatigue (CIS-fatigue).<br><br /><br /><br>For patients in the experimental group, also medical disease-specific data are collected and technical data on the use of the web-based intervention, in addition to the standardized questionnaires.