iving meaningfully with cancer.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- cancer survivors, meaning-making, existential issues.
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON20467
- Lead Sponsor
- VUMC, VU, LUMC
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 180
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be included when they are:
1. Diagnosed with cancer at least 1 year earlier less than 5 years ago;
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will be excluded when psychiatric disease is present, which may disable the patients' participation in the MCGP sessions, e.g. psychotic behavior (delusions or hallucinations), severe cognitive impairment, current psychiatric treatment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. The Dutch Personal Meaning Profile (39 items) has 5 scales: religion, dedication to life, fairness of life, goal-orientedness, relationships(á>.80; sufficient validity);<br /><br>2. The Dutch Post Traumatic Growth Scale (21 items) has 5 scales: relationships, viewing new possibilities, personal strength, spirituality, appreciation of life (á>.80; sufficient validity);<br /><br>3. The Dutch Ryff's conceptual wellbeing scale (52 items) has 6 scales: autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relationships, purpose in life, self-acceptance (á>.80; sufficient validity).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. The Dutch Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(14 items) has two scales: depression, anxiety(á>.80; sufficient validity);<br /><br>2. The Dutch Beck Hopelessness Scale(20 items) measures hopelessness(á>.80; sufficient validity);<br /><br>3. The Dutch Life Orientation Test(10 items) measures optimism(á>.80; sufficient validity);<br /><br>4. The Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale (40 items) measures specific responses and coping with cancer (á>.80; sufficient validity);<br /><br>5. The Dutch EORTC QLW-C30(30 items) measures tumor-specific health-related quality-of-life, functioning, and physical symptoms(á>.80; sufficient validity;<br /><br>6. EQ-5D;<br /><br>7. TIC-P;<br /><br>8. PRODISQ.